Re: XP Firewall efficiency

From: Testy (fraudbuster_at_canoemail.com)
Date: 04/29/04


Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 12:34:40 -0400

Norton's one and only goal is to sell you their crappy software.

Testy

<peter@ntl.com> wrote in message
news:5f6901c42e03$ffce3460$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> I switched to a Windows XP system about 3 months ago and
> have installed all Windows Critical Updates since then. I
> have enabled the XP Firewall, but on doing a Symantec
> (Norton) Security Scan today the latter says I have a
> Hacker Response Risk. Looking at their details, there
> were about 3 items shown as open to risk of hacking. How
> can this be when I have enabled XP Firewall (I double-
> checked this!). Do I ignore Norton, or disenable XP
> Firewall and switch to Norton or other Firewall? Help
> please!

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