Online Armor for the most parts fine but it has caused some users grief after avast program updates and that is something you have to watch out for. PC Tools Firewall seems to have the least user headaches as it doesn't seem to be constantly asking the user questions about this and that. There are many freeware firewalls such as, Comodo (care required now it is a suite not to install the anti-virus element), PCTools Firewall Plus, Online Armor and recently released, Outpost Firewall free 6.5 (2009) Whilst the windows XP firewall is usually good at keeping your ports stealthed (hidden) it provides no outbound protection and you should consider a third party firewall.Īny malware that manages to get past your defences will have free reign to connect to the internet to either download more of the same, pass your personal data (sensitive or otherwise, user names, passwords, keylogger retrieved data, etc.) or open a backdoor to your computer, so outbound protection is essential. What happens if you do a manual update (right click the avast 'a' icon, select Updating, iAVS Update), as I suggested in my last post, does that work or not ? The error message is certainly suggestive of firewall blocking, however, the XP firewall provides zero outbound checking so shouldn't be getting in the way. I have seen this happen/reported in the forums many times, it has also happened to me, hence suggestion to delete the entry and try a manual update.
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