Windows Defender Firewall Question

I was looking at all the Defender settings to make sure they were all done (I keep getting a notification from Defender when playing Destiny 2). I noticed in Control Panel, Security section that the Defender Firewall was turned on so I turned it off. Was that the right thing to do? I searched the forum and can't find a sample of the settings for that particular section and I don't want to leave my computer vulnerable. I currently have NOD32 installed.

Thanks

 

Windows Defender Firewall is just the old Windows built-in firewall that we've all known newly renamed to Windows Defender Firewall, Microsoft did this to make it sound like they have a full Security Suite built into the OS which technically it does, only there are far better choices out there than their heavy Windows Defender, see:
AV Comparatives Performance Test October 2017. Keep it enabled. That is different than your actual Windows Defender which is the Antivirus.

On my system, I have Windows defender and all its startup entries disabled. I don't touch Windows Defender Firewall that's an extra layer of protection that should go hand in hand with your Antivirus except off-course if you have the Internet Security Suite which has its own firewall which I am not a fan of as they often contain more bloatware like system optimizers, registry cleaners, yada yada yada (not in the case of ESET Internet Security but I have no need for Family Protection and extra Banking Protection and Anti Theft features)

What I do is, after installing all my apps, I go to Control Panel > Windows Defender Firewall, and enable internet access to my installed apps for both private and public networks then the ones that aren't listed there, I click Add another app > then manually browse to the location and add it. Basically, I go through all the apps listed in Program Files and Program Files (x86) that aren't listed by default on the apps list and add them manually.

 

FABULOUS, I'll go make the changes now.

@Phoenix, as always, THANKS!!!!!!

 

I added Destiny 2 but to be honest, I don't know what a lot of those entries are and if they should have access through the firewall or not. There also appears to be duplicate entries. I read a bunch of articles on the Windows Firewall but it got real technical real fast so I have to dedicate some more time to research all of the entries listed and what they do and if they need to be authorized.

So much to learn, but I do like to educate myself as much as I can.....sigh

 

I use this SW from Sphinxsoft for the past 3-4 yrs. http://www.sphinx-soft.com/download/Windows10FirewallControlFree-Setup.exe
It includes a cleaning option to cleanup older and invalid apps which is very useful for me.