Firewall problem

I have updated the Windows....Windows security  says firewall is on....but still the notification is showing Windows firewall and McAfee firewall are turned off.....

is it OK...or still needs to be fixed up....???

vinayak_torgal,

They seem to be turned on.

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I personally would solve this by uninstalling McAfee and making sure the built-in Windows Defender and Firewall applications are on afterward.  Third-party anti-virus has become more trouble than it's worth in my opinion, especially in these days of major OS releases every 6 months that increase the potential for a system-breaking conflict between Windows and third-party AV software that hooks the OS in all sorts of ways that Microsoft doesn't recommend or support.  Windows Defender in the last few years has also started to hold up very well against third-party solutions in independent lab tests, while third-party solutions seem to spend more time creating problems with legitimate activity that the user wants to happen than blocking something that wouldn't have been blocked if it hadn't been there.  And then there are cases where third-party AV has become a security vulnerability.  It turns out that if your application inserts itself basically everywhere in your system, then a bug in its code can be exploited from basically anywhere in your system and be used to grant low-level access to that system.  Symantec had an issue where their application scanned all incoming network traffic, but since there was a bug in that code, having Symantec installed on the system meant that a remote attacker could compromise your system simply by sending a certain kind of network traffic to it.

I just don't see any legitimate value to third-party AV anymore.  I've found that it's usually some combination of bloated, "noisy" in terms of notifications, problematic toward legitimate activity, and expensive.  Meanwhile, Microsoft's tools are free, stack up pretty well against the competition, and don't pose a compatibility liability with Windows updates.