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re: XP Firewall
Saturday, May 28, 2005 at 6:10 pm
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Posted by Tom McCune (764 messages posted)


The WinXP Firewall provides very good incoming protection.  But it does not provide 
any of the application outgoing control that you like, and which is good to have. 
 If you want a good free alternative to ZA, consider Sygate http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm




-Tom http://www.mccune.cc/


On Saturday, May 28, 2005 at 5:04 pm, michshelly wrote:
>Hi, Can someone please tell me if the Firewall in xp is any good? I was using ZoneAlarm
>but was having trouble with the vsdatant.sys driver causing big problems. I'm
>wondering if I turn on XP firewall will I get the same problems as with ZoneAlarm.
> I liked ZoneAlarm because it alerted me to what programs were trying to access the
>Internet etc. I like to be in total control of what programs try to access the Internet.
> Your replies are waited upon with much enthusiasm. Thanks :-))




Written in response to:
XP Firewall (michshelly: Saturday, May 28, 2005 at 5:04 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: XP Firewall (michshelly: Saturday, May 28, 2005 at 6:30 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-XP Firewall (michshelly: Sat, May 28, 2005, 5:04 pm)
-re: XP Firewall (Tom McCune: Sat, May 28, 2005, 6:10 pm)
-re: XP Firewall (michshelly: Sat, May 28, 2005, 6:30 pm)
*re: XP Firewall (Tom McCune: Sun, May 29, 2005, 5:42 am)
*re: XP Firewall (Rich Kurtz: Sat, May 28, 2005, 7:02 pm)
-re: XP Firewall (joe: Sat, May 28, 2005, 7:31 pm)
*re: XP Firewall (Rich Kurtz: Tue, May 31, 2005, 10:30 am)
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