Re: firewall
From: Bruce Chambers (bchambers@nospam.cableone.net)
Date: 02/18/03
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From: "Bruce Chambers" <bchambers@nospam.cableone.net> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 18:51:51 -0700
Greetings --
WinXP's built-in firewall is fine at stopping incoming attacks, and
hiding all of your ports from probes. It doesn't give you any alarms
to tell you that it is working, though. What WinXP also does not do,
is protect you from any Trojans or spyware that you might download and
install inadvertently. It doesn't monitor out-going traffic at all,
much less block (or at least ask you about) the bad or the
questionable out-going packets.
To enable the built-in firewall, Start > Network Connections >
Right-click the connection > Properties > Advanced > Protect my
computer.....
ZoneAlarm or Sygate are much better, and there are a free versions
available. Personally, I've been very happy with Symantec's Norton
Internet Security 2002 (NIS 2003 is now available), which includes
Norton AntiVirus, Norton Personal Firewall, parental controls, privacy
controls, and ad blocking. (Just the elimination of most pop-up ads
on the Internet made the price worth-while to me.)
Bruce Chambers
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
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---- You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. -- RAH "Rich" <felt10@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:004c01c2d6dd$f4f9e710$7d02280a@TK2MSFTNGXS01... > I'm running XP. For mas I got nortons firewall software. > > question is .. will XP firewall protect to a sufficient > level or is Notrtons a beter option ? > >
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