Re: xp security

From: glenn (zottolamusic_at_socal.rr.com)
Date: 07/31/03


Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 18:33:21 -0700


thanks and i appreciate the help and outgoing is very
important. A tech support person said "blackice" has
holes in it and recommended i9nstall. What is a top
quality firewall out there ?

Glenn
p.s. someone at work recommended a free program called
Zone Alarm ?

>-----Original Message-----
>On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 10:34:36 -0700, glenn zottola wrote:
>
>> i just bought a fujitsu notebook with xp for small
business use.
>> security is an issue for my activety and i would like
to know if the xp
>> built in firewall is sufficient ?
>> on my desktop i am running windows 98 with blackice
firewall.
>> thank you
>
>WXP's built-in firewall doesn't block outgoing traffic.
If this is a
>problem for you, it might be better to install
your 'blackice' firewall on
>WXP as well.
>
>Greetz, barramundi...
>
>--
>barramundi at pandora dot be
>running GNU/Linux 2.4.20-19.9 build #1 Tue Jul 15
17:18:13 EDT 2003
>
>.
>



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