Re: Firewalls

From: Bruce Chambers (bchambers_at_nospam.cableone.net)
Date: 08/26/03 

Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 20:26:41 -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, Kerio, 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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"CBraunsc" <Cbraunsc@calfee.com> wrote in message
news:093a01c36b08$79fe1170$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> I have enabled the XP firewall.  Is there any benefit to
> installing any independent firewall software?  Would
> there in fact be a problem in so doing?

Relevant Pages

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