Re: firewall
From: Bruce Chambers (bchambers_at_nospam.cableone.net)
Date: 07/05/03
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Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 12:54:07 -0600
Greetings --
WinXP's built-in firewall is fine at stopping incoming attacks, and
hiding 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.
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.)
You can compare several firewall solutions, some of them free,
here:
The DSL Zone Your Broadband Solution Source
http://thedslzone.com/Software.html
Bruce Chambers
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---- You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. -- RAH "joe" <jsbjk@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:01a701c34324$857ef700$a101280a@phx.gbl... > Can anyone reccomend a good firewall program? What do I > need for my computer?
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