Re: Software Firewalls

From: Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] (lanwench_at_heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com)
Date: 03/05/05 

Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 13:10:40 -0500

Scott M. wrote:
> 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.

I'd say "simple", rather than "crude". It blocks *all* inbound traffic by
default....and no outbound, which is often enough.

I personally don't use it myself, but I've found that for the majority of
home/small biz users, it's very confusing for them to continually get popup
messages asking if they want to allow blah.exe to access the Internet. They
either click No all the time out of (reasonable) paranoia and mess up
something, or they allow things they shouldn't.

I prefer perimeter network firewalls, even for home networks.
>
>
> "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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