Re: Best software firewall

Simon Finnigan wrote:
"Gaz" <gazter@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Simon Finnigan wrote:
"Graham" <thedoctor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Simon Finnigan" <simonfinnigan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi all, in the pocess of a new build, and I'm looking for advice on a
good
software based firewall for Windows XP. Until now I've been using
Kerio
personnal firewall, and was wondering if there was anything better out
there for free? Ideally something that would ask me about incomming
and
outgoing traffic, and allow me to set rules based on applications like
kerio.

Ok,

Perhaps a silly naive question: Whats wrong with the Windows firewall?

How many reasons do you want? :-)

Perfectly fine for the none techie person.

I'd even disagree with that - I'd rather show a non techie how to use a
real
firewall than give them the false sense of security ou get from the
Windows
XP built in one.

A false sense of security is a three month demo of norton internet security,
that keeps asking you to allow or prevent access of a process you have no
idea of. To stop the nagging, you allow all, making the firewall useless.

This is more often the scenario then not. The SP2 firewall, turned on by
default was a major security improvement (something, it could be argued,
that should have been like that from initial release).

Gaz


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