Re: I am sick of windows firewall

Duane Arnold wrote:
IPsec that's on the XP O/S too can be used to supplement the XP FW if
you need to stop outbound packets. And it can do it by port, protocol,
or IP.
[...]
I use the AnalogX IPsec rules to supplement BlackIce on the laptop.

That's bad. You're always open to IP/50, IP/51 and UDP/500, and your
rules will always let pass all Kerberos, NetBIOS, multicast and
broadcast traffic. Some of those excemptions can be disabled, some cannot.
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