[windows2000] Re: Personal firewall for x64?

  • From: "Sorin Srbu" <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 16:30:13 +0100

Sullivan, Glenn <> wrote on Tuesday, March 06, 2007 3:48 PM:

Don't like the controls and GUI. Oh, wait, there are almost none! ;-) Simple
as that. I'm more of a Zonealarm kinda' admin. 8-]

Otherwise, the built-in firewall in XP is rather good, at least the one
available with SP2 or in my case with XP x64, SP1.


> Call me silly, but what about XP's firewall?  Whatsmatta that?  Works
> for me, along with a good border hardware firewall...
> 
> 
> Glenn Sullivan, MCSE+I MCDBA
> David Clark Company Inc.
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> Subject: [windows2000] Personal firewall for x64?
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> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Anybody having any clues on a good, preferrably free, personal firewall
> for WinXP x64?
> 
> Tried googling for it, but the ones looking promising at first were
> reported not to do anything on WinXP x64 or giving driver errors, like
> Bitdefender and Kerio.
> 
> I entertained the idea of a hw-firewall/router and decided to try it
> out, but after having tried it out for a while (a month I believe) I
> lost the connection to the DC:s and the rest of the AD. Not a good
> thing... May have been a misconfig, but I still don't like the idea of
> losing the connection to the AD.
> 
> Anyway, hints are welcome.
> 
> TIA.
> 
> 
> BW,
> 
> Sorin
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