Re: Software Firewalls

From: Scott M. (s-mar_at_nospam.nospam)
Date: 03/04/05 

Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 15:37:54 -0500

I use ZA with XP Pro SP2 and have had no problems on any of the 6 machines I
use it with. I would NOT recommend the XP Firewall as the other person
suggested. The Windows Firewall is crude at best.

"Ken Gardner" <KenGardner@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:14147609-4F15-47CE-B7EA-C313C8D87FEB@microsoft.com...
> "Rod P." wrote:
>
>> I have Windows XP Pro SP2 and I tried to install ZoneAlarm Pro, but my
>> computer would not boot, so I am wondering if there is a firewall out
>> there
>> that is compatible with the SP2 firewall.
>
> Yeah. The SP2 firewall. Once you install SP2 and keep it up to date, you
> really don't need a third party firewall as long as you use other measures
> to
> keep viruses, trojans, worms, adware, and spyware from getting on your
> system
> in the first place -- and you will also be free of all the problems (did
> someone mention Zone Alarm?) that people seem to experience whenever they
> attempt to install a third party firewall with SP2 (as you can quickly
> learn
> by regularly following these newsgroups).
>
> If, despite all this, you want to use a third party firewall, you should
> turn off the Windows firewall. You should have only one firewall running
> at
> any time on your system. Ditto for antivirus.
>
> Ken

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