Re: XP2 and McAfee Security Centre

From: Doug Knox MS-MVP (dknox_at_mvps.org)
Date: 06/10/05 

Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 16:15:40 -0400

This is incorrect. SP2's firewall monitors both inbound and outbound connections. 

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"Peter" <r2d2 AT cesmail DOT net> wrote in message news:OCO5X8abFHA.2420@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> XP SP2's Firewall is only partial protection, i.e. incoming only.  It wont 
> protect you from something already in your PC trying to get out.
> Software firewalls offer more protection.
> Problems with McAfee?  Post at their forums:
> http://forums.mcafeehelp.com/index.php
> 
> -- 
> Peter
> Toronto, Canada
> XP Home SP2
> P4 HT @ 3.0ghz, 160gb HD, 1.0gb RAM
> "Peter Hughes" <PeterHughes@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
> news:CABB5F93-E51A-4D2C-BA1E-6A3F4013539B@microsoft.com...
>> Hi
>>
>> I have McAfee Security Cente installed on my PC (for over a year now) and
>> have recently moved up to SP2 of XP. With the features of XP2, is there 
>> any
>> point in still using McAfee? I have had some strange occurences with 
>> Hotmail
>> recently where mail that is definietely not Junk (sometimes even entered 
>> into
>> my Safe area) is going into Junk. I do not know if this is due to some
>> conflict between the 2 sets of security. Additionally, McAfee takes ages 
>> to
>> load so I will he fairly happy not to have to use it.
>>
>> Many thanks
>> Peter
>> -- 
>> Peter 
> 
>

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