Re: Online Arrmor

In article <12o8hdyxdj6n6$.1ur3g1e7g05lw.dlg@xxxxxxxxxx>, kayhkay-
nospam-@xxxxxxxxxxxxx says...

On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:44:22 GMT, Jim S wrote:

I moved to Online Armor mainly because Comodo was asking me about files I
did not recognise. It seems OK thus far.
However Shields-Up spotted port 0 as being closed, but went on to say port
0 is never used. Can anyone explain?
And while I'm here, whatever happened to PCflank and is there anything
similar?

If on WinXP or Vista, steer away from any 3rd party software firewall
programs; They are useless to say the least. Stick with the built-in
application.

Nonsense. Software firewalls are an important part of your security
(unless you're doing all your online work in a sandbox or VPN, which is
significantly more complicated for the average user).
.

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