Re: WinXP personal firewall

From: Michel (2rvb-l25i@spamex.com)
Date: 12/14/02 

From: "Michel" <2rvb-l25i@spamex.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 19:12:26 -0800

I would like to see were you got that information about Zone Alarm leave
port open to hacker because I would like to read the article unless there is
none
"Abi" <agargye@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:092d01c2a1f2$eab197a0$d4f82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA11...
> Why would you want to leave the ports open?
>
> Both Sygate & ZoneAlarm leave certain ports open to
> hackers/viruses and xp-home firewall does not start up
> sometimes (my xprience anyway!). I have used Tiny Firewall
> since & I never had an issue with it ...
> www.tinysoftware.com there is a free version for personal
> use). You can also go to norton.com and carry out the
> security check (its free)
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Is there any way to open up an entire range of 100 ports
> >when using xp home's personal firewall, other than
> >manually opening each port individually. I've tried
> using
> >zone alarm and sygate personal firewall and had problems
> >with them causing 100% resource utilization after the
> >computer was on for several hours. Any help would be
> >appreciated
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >Ira
> >.
> >

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