-=PCTechTalk=- Re: xp firewall
- From: "Corey S" <bmhcjs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 21:16:38 +1000
Hiya,
I personally think it does what a firewall is supposed to do. Firewalls
where designed to prevent unauthorised entry to a PC.
For this purpose, the inbuilt XP firewall works.
Zonealarm only prevents certain scripts and spyware - not all. As for
trojans, everyone should be running a decent anti-virus in conjunction
with firewalls.
It's all a matter of personal preferences really.
Regards,
Corey
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Hi Gratchie,
the built in XP firewall is not good!
It only blocks incoming probes, it does nothing to prevent Trojans,
Spyware, or other malicious scrips from outgoing access.
Zone Alarm or almost any of the other firewall are better.
References; http://www.vicomsoft.com/knowledge/reference/firewalls1.html
Firewalls;
http://www.zonelabs.com/index.html
http://www.hackfix.org/software/configure/zone.html
http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpostfree.html
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On 22/08/2002 at 12:02 PM gratchie wrote:
anybody here using the preinstalled firewall in xp?
is it better than zone alarm or any other commercial firewalls?
thanks
gratchie
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