Re: WinXP Firewall (Home Edition)

From: Star Fleet Admiral Q (Star_Fleet_Admiral_Q(NO-SPAM)_at_(FORGET-SPAM)hotmail.com)
Date: 07/31/04 

Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 01:28:29 -0400

    Best practice nowadays is to run both soft and hardware
firewalls - especially with a home network - hardware can protect you
from most internet attacks, but does nothing for internal network
attacks. And hardware firewalls don't detect unauthorized outgoing
packets, like Trojans always phoning home, not to mention software
firewalls can interface directly with your AV software, and save your
bacon from an infected PC within your internal network.
    The problem, people don't want to take the time to properly
configure the software firewall to work with shared access to internal
network resources - it is work, time and effort to accomplish both,
unauthorized external access, but authorized internal access. 

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Star Fleet Admiral Q @ your service
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"Steve" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:78e401c4766d$c3ae0110$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> The best thing you could do is get a network firewall
> such as a Linksys instead of using the windows firewall.
> The reason I say this is to stop the traffic before it
> gets to your network instead of letting the computer
> decide what to do with the packets. They run about $40-
> $50 at any computer retailer.
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Hello
> >
> >I've enabled the WinXP firewall. I have a Blueyonder
> Broadband Connection and am confused when it comes to the
> advanced parameter options of the firewall in the
> advanced section, from the firewall settings window.
> Please could you guide me through the parameters that I
> require to be enabled! I read the article
> at "http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/ex
> pert/bowman_november12.mspx" where I learnt to set my
> parameters of the firewall to enable file sharing over
> Messenger. By the way - does this also work for MSN
> messenger? I would like to know whether there are any
> other programs of popular use e.g. For Windows Media
> Player streaming media, E-Mail programs, etc where
> parameters of the included WinXP firewall need to be
> amended.
> >
> >One thing I have noted that regularly occurs regarding
> my ISP, is hat I keep receiving 'Anti-Virus Protection'
> mails. They attach an E-Mail that was sent to me with an
> attachment specified by the sender. Therefore, all mail
> with attachments that are sent to me are automatically
> received in this way in my inbox. Is this the work of the
> firewall? I have enabled attachments to be opened in
> Outlook Express options, so I'm not sure if it's the
> firewall or just my ISP settings somewhere.
> >
> >Thank you in advance,
> >
> >Darryl
> >A.K.A. The Mauritian Milkman
> >
> >
> >.
> >

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