Re: Firewall (provided with)XP
From: Bruce Chambers (bchambers_at_nospamcableone.net)
Date: 02/05/04
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Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 20:06:52 -0700
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 all much better, and are much more
easily configured, and there are a free versions of each readily
available. Even Symantec's Norton Personal Firewall is superior by
far, although it does take a heavier toll of performance then do
ZoneAlarm, Kerio, or Sygate.
Bruce Chambers
-- Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. -- RAH "Mack" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:99f901c3eb48$87665870$a301280a@phx.gbl... > I am running WinXP(Pro) and followed recent instructions > as to how to enable Firewall included in Win XP. Is > this all the Firewall protection I need? or do I need to > purchase additional Firewall protection from McAfee or > Symantec (since I use their Virus protection already)?
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