![]() How to Create Advanced Firewall Rules in the Windows Firewall ![]() So what i was wondering, whilst i am still using my avast premier for anti-virus and the rest of its features, will i really need/miss windows defender? Generally i have made it a rule of thumb to not trust built in windows devices as they usually are mediocre at the best of times, when windows 10 was released there was talk that defender was now a capable anti-virus/firewall, so i have had little choice to fall back to it as a firewall due to avast not playing ball, is it good enough to rely on this or is avast a more reliable firewall? (i rather hope it isn't considering it clearly doesn't want said device to operate through it). Well it wasn't easy to set up in the first place but i spent 2 hours trying to get this to work, again i have little to no knowledge in this area, the guide for setup wasn't the best as it just stated in needs a incoming connection to port 52050 via a TCP connection, no idea what this meant, i tried everything avast had to offer to no avail, i grew tired and disabled avast firewall and not had any issues since (the "skill" is built to auto add exceptions to windows defender). Yesterday however, after asking my echo device to play the music, nothing happened, i checked my on-screen (PC) user interface to see it was telling me the port was blocked, so after checking avast, sure enough, the firewall logs was blocking said port. ![]() I have been using Avast premier for 2 years without issue, a few months ago i installed a Alexa skill for my Echo which connects to my PC to stream music, it required manually opening a port, which whilst i have moderate computer knowledge, this didn't extend to firewalls and networking, so it was a bit of a job and a half to setup (especially as it wasn't easy to find how to manually tell avast to open said port), but with some time and patience i got the thing up and running.
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