What are the best firewall tools for Windows?

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Best firewall tools for Windows	Price	Last Updated
-- Bitdefender	-	Dec 26, 2017
-- Windows Firewall Control (by Binisoft)	-	May 24, 2018
-- Windows Firewall	0	Dec 25, 2017
-- Avira	-	Aug 17, 2017
-- Kaspersky Internet Security	-	Jun 24, 2016

Bitdefender

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Peter J. Mello's Experience

Bitdefender has decisively led the pack in 2016-2017 among Windows security suites. With a reliable "Autopilot mode" that requires almost zero user interaction day-to-day and dedicated banking, password, and spam protection modules, it has you covered from all angles. While it is slightly more resource-heavy and prone to false positives than in years past, in the current security climate where new threat vectors emerge hourly, they can hardly be faulted for an aggressive behavior model since it definitely gets the job done. See More

Windows Firewall

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Top Pro

Most other firewalls use the Windows Firewall API anyway.

Most experienced (amateur) users use just a frontend application beside Windows Firewall like TinyWall, Glasswire, Windows Firewall Control. If you don't want to bother and spend a lot of time tweaking: use solely the integrated Windows Firewall. Wilders Security Forums can be used to learn and know about the lastest trends. See More

Top Con

The notifications aren't very helpful

The notifications just pop up once. If you press the wrong button it's hard to go back and change your choice. And not all programs that connect to internet will trigger a notification. See More

Top Pro

Automatic updates for newly installed/ removed programs

Top Con

Not very intuitive

The already included Windows Firewall is not very easy to set up. Although new rules might be set up very fast, it's hard to understand what's going on for normal users. See More

Avira

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Kaspersky Internet Security

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Top Pro

Can easily blacklist specific apps without having to find the .exe

Saves time when wanting to block specific apps from having network access. See More

AVG

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COMODO

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Panda Security

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Symantec

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