Re: XP Fire wall

From: worried (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/24/04 

Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 08:44:48 -0700

So Robert,
what you are trying to say,is I with my stand alone
XP Home,with XP Firewall,not doing anything
outrageous,don't need Zone Alarm?

>worried<

>-----Original Message-----
>Cracker Jacks wrote:
>> Could someone tell me If I should use external fire
wall software or
>> is the on built in to XP good enough? I know this may
be a fairly
>> open question. But for the average home user how does
it fair against
>> say Zone Alarm Pro?
>
>The Windows XP firewall is very good at what it does, as
good at that job as
>Zone Alarm if not better, but Zone Alarm does more things.
>
>But then any "software" firewall is a sick joke compared
to a seperate
>"hardware" firewall so... *shrug*
>
>
>.
>

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