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re: firewalls Friday, April 7, 2006 at 10:38 am Posted by Rich Kurtz (12246 messages posted) I use and recommend ZoneAlarm Free, others don't care for it. See Joe's List of usefull applications for what's available. If you have SP2 installed, it comes with a built-in firewall. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: firewalls Friday, April 7, 2006 at 10:42 am Posted by Steve (23810 messages posted) Even the XP firewall is good, it just doesn't offer out going protection. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: firewalls Friday, April 7, 2006 at 10:58 am Posted by Larry (1364 messages posted) I agree with Rich (and Steve too). I've installed ZoneAlarm free on many dozens of machines running every vesion of Windows from 98 up, and IMO you can't go wrong with it! On Friday, April 7, 2006 at 9:57 am, mrtoon wrote: >hi all ,my trial with mcafee has run out .i removed all of it now and downloaded >avast and microsoft beta antiviris because they are free i was wondering do i need >to download a firewall too.and if so which free ones are recomended thanks in advance [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: firewalls Friday, April 7, 2006 at 11:27 am Posted by jcw (5124 messages posted) Pre-SP2 WinXP had/has a built-in firewall. On Friday, April 7, 2006 at 10:38 am, Rich Kurtz wrote: >I use and recommend ZoneAlarm Free, others don't care for it. See >Joe's List of usefull applications for what's available. > >If you have SP2 installed, it comes with a built-in firewall. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: firewalls Friday, April 7, 2006 at 1:13 pm Posted by Rich Kurtz (12246 messages posted) Not that I am aware of. How did you use it, control it? I'm only aware of the one that is included with SP2. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: firewalls Friday, April 7, 2006 at 1:33 pm Posted by Steve (188 messages posted) If I remember correctly, there was a windows firewall but the sp2 set the default to "on". On Friday, April 7, 2006 at 1:13 pm, Rich Kurtz wrote: >Not that I am aware of. How did you use it, control it? I'm only aware of the one >that is included with SP2. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: firewalls Friday, April 7, 2006 at 1:59 pm Posted by jcw (5124 messages posted) WXP has always had a builit-in firewall. Pre-SP2, called Internet Connection Firewall Pre-SP2, accessed via:   Control Panel > Properties for internet connection > Advanced On Friday, April 7, 2006 at 1:13 pm, Rich Kurtz wrote: >Not that I am aware of. How did you use it, control it? I'm only aware of the one >that is included with SP2. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: firewalls Friday, April 7, 2006 at 6:09 pm Posted by blitz (186 messages posted) I use Sygate but they got bought out by Symantec and are no longer offering new versions of the firewall but if you look around you can still get the last free one and it works great for me (I upgraded to the Pro version). Try here... http://www.oldversion.com/ On Friday, April 7, 2006 at 9:57 am, mrtoon wrote: >hi all ,my trial with mcafee has run out .i removed all of it now and downloaded >avast and microsoft beta antiviris because they are free i was wondering do i need >to download a firewall too.and if so which free ones are recomended thanks in advance [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: firewalls Friday, April 7, 2006 at 9:11 pm Posted by Ricer46 (23825 messages posted) SP0 and SP1 both had a firewall, it just wasn't enabled in the default installation. The biggest security benefit that SP2 offerred was that it simply turned on the firewall that was there all along. When M$ handles security issues that way has a lot to do with why so many of us have not bothered with SP2 or any of the updates. Earlier security related patches simply turned off features in OE that essentially crippled it as an email program. That's not a fix, it's a band-aid. How did you control it? Exactly the same way it's done in SP2. On Friday, April 7, 2006 at 1:13 pm, Rich Kurtz wrote: >Not that I am aware of. How did you use it, control it? I'm only aware of the one >that is included with SP2. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Joe's List has out-of-date link for Sygate Friday, April 7, 2006 at 11:54 pm Posted by SpiritWind (575 messages posted) A current link for Sygate Personal firewall is www.spychecker.com/program/sygatefw.html . [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: firewalls Saturday, April 8, 2006 at 2:05 pm Posted by Rich Kurtz (12246 messages posted) Thanks jcw, ricer, et al. Now I do remember (after your posts of course). For some reason I always associated ICF with ICS. No idea why. Probably just because of the similar names. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Joe's List has out-of-date link for Sygate Saturday, April 8, 2006 at 2:10 pm Posted by Rich Kurtz (12246 messages posted) Thanks SpiritWind. Joe has not posted here in quite some time that I'm aware of. If he doesn't fix this soon I may co-opt his post, check/correct all links and repost it (with suitable attribution of course). It's a nice page with a lot of good links. Would be good info to have as a link under Articles on the left sice of Annoyances pages. I tried to send him offline E-mail but he has that blocked. 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