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re: ICS will not work with Kerio Firewall
Friday, November 24, 2006 at 6:05 pm
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Posted by blitz (186 messages posted)


The reason for using a 3rd party firewall instead of XP SP2's firewall is that XP's 
only blocks incoming connection attempts not outgoing. If there is something on your 
PC that you don't want to make an outbound connection, the Windows FW will do nothing 
to stop it.






On Friday, November 24, 2006 at 2:58 pm, Steve Dunn wrote:
>question 1 - why move from AVG to Avast? AVG has smallest footprint (ie, it clogs
>your machine less than an other AV) and best AV detection rate.
>
>question 2. if you're using XP - presumably service pack 2 - why have you other third
>part firewalls - xp with sp2 has its own perfectly good one.
>
>
>



Written in response to:
re: ICS will not work with Kerio Firewall (Steve Dunn: Friday, November 24, 2006 at 2:58 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: ICS will not work with Kerio Firewall (Steve: Friday, November 24, 2006 at 6:25 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-ICS will not work with Kerio Firewall (Harlean Greathouse: Fri, Nov 24, 2006, 1:42 pm)
-re: ICS will not work with Kerio Firewall (Steve Dunn: Fri, Nov 24, 2006, 2:58 pm)
-re: ICS will not work with Kerio Firewall (blitz: Fri, Nov 24, 2006, 6:05 pm)
-re: ICS will not work with Kerio Firewall (Steve: Fri, Nov 24, 2006, 6:25 pm)
-re: ICS will not work with Kerio Firewall (Harlean Greathouse: Fri, Nov 24, 2006, 8:04 pm)
-re: ICS will not work with Kerio Firewall (Steve Dunn: Sat, Nov 25, 2006, 10:03 am)
*re: ICS will not work with Kerio Firewall (Steve: Sat, Nov 25, 2006, 2:33 pm)
*Avast Support Forums (SpiritWind: Sat, Nov 25, 2006, 10:49 am)
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