Re: I am sick of windows firewall

V S Rawat <VSRawat@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I had uninstalled zone alarm 6.1 free, and gone to xp firewall a
week ago.
But, it seems I am more sick of windows firewall because
programs keep on accessing net without having a mention in
windows firewall. I am using Thunderbird, Firefox, Free download
manager, hamster, and several such software that I see
connecting to net. But, there is not mention of them in firewall
window.

Yes. And this is intended.

Zonealarm was at least having a mention of each program that was
connecting to net.

No. Zone Alarm was tricking you by claiming this - as a matter of fact,
Zone Alarm only shows what it notices - it only controls, what lets
Zone Alarm control it.

So this is useless anyways.

- yesterday, bloody autoupdate downloaded some full 36 updates
and I could not find any way of stopping that in windows
firewall.

Better keep your system up to date. A firewall cannot protect you from
every exploit in your operating systems or applications.

So, Windows-Firewall does a good job here.

Yours,
VB.
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