Re: XP firewall - useful or not?

XP's firewall stops incoming attacks/traffic only. This is ok if your behind
a router. however it is nice to have an 'out going' wall to see what's
trying to connect FROM your machine.(you'll be amazed what's going on,
recently I found that nero phones home when using 'smart start')
I don't use zone alarm any longer as this firewall has gone to a bloated
version of the original and causes weird
system resource problems. FWIW Sygate is what I use now.



"Harry" <Harry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:08:04 -0700, "DaveW" <nowhere@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>It is ALWAYS better to combine a hardware firewall with a software
>>firewall.
>>They work in different ways. (Even if the software firewall works in only
>>one direction, like XP's does.)
> What about something like zonealarm? Does windows firewall and a
> router hardware firewall offere enough protection so that something
> like Zonealarm is not really needed.
>
> TIA
>
> Harry


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