Re: XP's Firewall

From: "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 18:55:49 -0400

From: "B.W." <bwaller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (del xxx)>

| Did the Firewall with XP improve with SP2?
|
| Is it still not considered good enough to use? Would it be best to use a
| third party free programme?
|
| Thanks You for any help.
|
| B.W.
|

Yes. It was greatly improved. However it is NOT a full FireWall application. A third
party FireWall application from; Comodo, BlackIce, ZoneLabs and Kerio (to name a few) are
far better.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm

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