Re: SP2/firewall

From: Adrian (pavonea_at_optusnet.com)
Date: 01/22/05 

Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 12:51:24 +0800

On 21 Jan 2005 20:42:05 EST, winged <winged@nofollow.com> wrote:

>JOHANNA NORDMYR wrote:
>> Iīve just recently installed the SP2 and decided to use the firewall
>> included, instead of Nortonīs. As far as I can tell it seems to be working
>> okay, but some of the icons are giving me a headache... At some websites
>> "integrety report" pops up. Why??
>>
>>
>I believe from what I can tell from your description that the feature is
>part of SP2 not related to the firewall. I believe the report indicates
>that an activeX control was modified since the control was signed by its
>publisher using authenticode.
>
>That said, You never mentioned why you chose to goto the windows
>firewall when you had Norton available. While the Sp2 firewall is
>better than nothing, Symantec firewall is tough to beat especially one
>of the newer Symantec products. It is a better firewall than Windows
>for multiple reasons. I do understand how to constraint the Sp2
>Firewall with firewall rule sets, but I am lazy and like the ease of use
>Symantec gives for building pipes, restricting code and scripts. While
>I also have these restrictions on my browser, I prefer them never to get
>past my entry point in most situations.
>
>Winged

Here Here,

Symantec also does not have the flaws that are no doubt in the SP2
firewall. Microsoft will eventually patch them, but you wouldn't want
a cracker to find the vulnerabilities first.

The only reason I would ever use the windows firewall is because it
annoys you with an icon saying it is off all the time, but if you tell
it that you are using Symantec/Zonealarm/any other commercial program,
it stops that too.

Adrian

P.S. If it is the activeX problem, you should have a little yellow
strip at the top of the IE window, right click on that to choose what
to do.

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