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  • November 25, 2015
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just installed using zone alarm free for firewall. is this okay screen showed a webroot  firewall" on"

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    Ssherjj
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    • Ssherjj
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    • November 26, 2015
    Hello TN-GAL,
     
    Welcome to the Webroot Community,
     
    Please see this Knowledge Base Article for more information.  And this thread on the subject is worth reading for more insight. Also  here is the PC User Guide.
     
     
    Does ? have anything to add here?
     
    Hope this helps?
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      RetiredTripleHelix
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      Hello and Welcome to the Webroot Community!
       
      Yes it's fine as WSA's Firewall is only outbound and is suggested to use with Windows Firewall or a Third Party one then you have full inbound & outbound traffic protection! http://www.webroot.com/En_US/SecureAnywhere/PC/WSA_PC_Help.htm#C4_Firewall/CH4a_ManagingFirewall.htm
       
      Also some info about WSA's Firewall on Windows 8 or Windows 10: https://community.webroot.com/t5/Ideas-Exchange/Outbound-connections-fw-control-in-Win-8-Win-8-1/idi-p/60003
       
      Note was is said here:
       
      PrevxHelp( JoeJ, VP of Development ) wrote:
       
      The firewall in Windows 8 is much easier to work with than previous platforms because of the built in OS controls. Every vendor needs to use the same APIs now (the older methods are deprecated), but that's exactly why we aren't doing it currently - no matter what vendor wraps the APIs, it will be exactly the same underlying calls which are built into the OS, and you can use the OS UI to do the same job if you want to customize it.
       
      The reason why we have the functionality on Windows 7 and not Windows 8 is because Microsoft doesn't expose the same normalized interfaces on Windows 7 (or require vendors to use the new APIs).
       
      Thanks,
       
      Daniel 😉
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