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re: You should be grateful.does not always mean deactivated firewall.what do cookies have to do with firewalls?
Tuesday, July 27, 2004 at 5:39 pm
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Posted by Downstrike (1 messages posted)


If you think that XP has a firewall, and that it has anything to do with cookies, MyCrudSoft could probably sell you a few bridges and swamps too. Seriously, XP's Internet Connection Firewall is the most useless parody of a security feature ever. Firewalls - even ICF - have nothing to do with cookies.


On Tuesday, April 8, 2003 at 2:12 pm, andyr00 wrote:
>the firewall on XP has various levels of security and on its highest setting it is
>hard to use the internet as you constantly get websites moaning about cookies an
>stuff,however on the recommended setting you still get the messenger pop ups which
>only started recently for me and is most annoying because it always crashed me out
>of online games and took priority,it is now disabled.
>
>


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re: You should be grateful.does not always mean deactivated firewall (andyr00: Tuesday, April 8, 2003 at 2:12 pm)

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All messages in this thread [show all]
-You should be grateful. (Downstrike: Thu, Jan 9, 2003, 4:27 pm)
-re: You should be grateful.does not always mean deactivated firewall (andyr00: Tue, Apr 8, 2003, 2:12 pm)
*re: You should be grateful.does not always mean deactivated firewall.what do cookies have to do with firewalls? (Downstrike: Tue, Jul 27, 2004, 5:39 pm)
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