Re: Zone Alarm Conflict with XP Firewall?

From: Tomothy Spazchrist (IainMcLaren35@spamtwatter.hotmail.com)
Date: 12/07/02 

From: Tomothy Spazchrist <IainMcLaren35@spamtwatter.hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 18:23:16 -0800

"Peter" <p.jardine@rogers.com> squirted these wordjisms deep inside the
bumtube of the newstwat in news:usnu1TJnCHA.1608@TK2MSFTNGP08:

> I find the firewall in xp to be pretty good

but:

it does not stop software from going out to the net though

hmmm, not so good then......

why waste money on others when you have one built in. See for your self.

....perhaps its not wasted money when it tells you what is dialling out.
Which, as you admit, the XP *firewall* will not do. So by your own
admission the XP *firewall* is not as effective.

Run XP firewall and then check
> https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 select test my shield and test my
> port. Run Zone alarm alone then do the test over, compare the results,
> they will both be the same with the exception of software going out to
> the net with xp firewall.

'with the exception of'???? IN a security context - are you mad? And have
you ever installed, for example, RealOne? I want to know when *** like
that is phoning home. The XP firewall will not tell you that it is doing
so.

Who cares if you don't have nothing to hide.

That's not the point. Just because I may have nothing to hide doesnt mean
that some twat has the right to snoop about into who I am, what OS I use,
or what I am doing - whether its for marketing preference reasons or
something more sinister. 

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