Re: outbound firewall for dummies?

I agree with Malke. Have her use the Windows Firewall. Even most advanced
users have trouble with a software firewall. Of course as a friend also
point her to the link below to make sure she is following basic security
best practices and remind her to not to browse the internet, use chat
programs, or open email logged on with an account that is also a local
administrator.

Steve

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/windowsxpsp2/Default.mspx

"peter" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I want to recommend a firewall for a friend who just converted from dialup
to DSL. She is not very knowledgeable about computers, so I don't think
zonealarm would work for her. Even I have trouble deciding sometimes
whether to allow or not allow some .exe to act as a host...

Is there an outbound firewall that can decide for itself, using eithe AI,
whitelist lookup or other means to decide what outbound traffic is safe to
allow and what is not?

Otherwise, I'd have to recommend using windowsXP's firewall.



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