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Originally Posted by zamler
This is the very attitude that I've seen time and again result in malware infections.
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I cannot imagine a situation, aside from the one sclitheroe mentioned where you are not on a trusted network, where having a 3rd party firewall installed would provide enough measurable increase in security to justify the time spent in installing and managing that software.
The only situation that it would likely help with, is to reduce additional infection, due to an already installed trojan/downloader. Even then, the default Windows (and I presume OSx, but don't quote me on that) firewall would provide the same firewall functionality, that the user could/would likely just ignore and allow through anyway. Of course, this whole thing is ignoring the fact that you are already infected, so pretty much a moot point.
Of course, if you can't trust every computer on your network, then that's a whole new ballgame, and I certainly might suggest a solution such as Comodo (which is one of the better free firewall solutions).
edit: Just to clarify, I am not referring to the AV/Sandboxing/Backup etc abilities of the Comodo Suite, but simply the firewall portion. If you wanted these other features as well, instead of some other product, then it might make more sense to also use the Firewall functionality as well, I suppose.