XP Firewall

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Justin Dustin

In a recent thread, the effectiveness of the built-in Windows XP
firewall was questioned, and various freeware firewalls were
recommended. Since the XP firewall does block all inbound traffic, for
a user of a single home computer (not on a network,) why wouldn't this
be completely satisfactory?
 
In a recent thread, the effectiveness of the built-in Windows XP
firewall was questioned, and various freeware firewalls were
recommended. Since the XP firewall does block all inbound traffic,
for a user of a single home computer (not on a network,) why
wouldn't this be completely satisfactory?
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Take the example of a spyware installed on your PC ; it will request
an outbound connection and if your firewall only manages inbound
connections, your PC won't be protected.
 
Antoine said:
Take the example of a spyware installed on your PC ; it will request
an outbound connection and if your firewall only manages inbound
connections, your PC won't be protected.
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Well in that case, you need a software FW too. Having two wouldn't hurt
would it?
 
Sweet Andy Licious said:
Well in that case, you need a software FW too. Having two wouldn't
hurt would it?
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Yes it would ; having two or more software FW installed on the same
machine is not recommended at all ; it would compromise the system
stability.
 
I have never had any problems using 3! XP built-in, Norton 2003 and My Tiny
Firewall.

Karolus
 
Karl said:
I have never had any problems using 3! XP built-in, Norton 2003 and My Tiny
Firewall.
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I often use ICS to connect my pc via an XP machine running Kerio (currently 2.15)
as it's main firewall + XP firewall to 'stealth' it's ports.
Never a problem either.

XP's own firewall seems to get on well with other firewalls.

I have had the occasional conflict when running kerio and ZA on my 98 machine
(not something I'd normally do)
 
Yes it would ; having two or more software FW installed on the same
machine is not recommended at all ; it would compromise the system
stability.
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I have used two firewalls on my system for years. No problems with
stability at all. But then I am not using XP.


Regards, John.
 
Yes it would ; having two or more software FW installed on the same
machine is not recommended at all ; it would compromise the system
stability.
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Sorry, but you are wrong. The only 2 firewalls I know of that conflict are
Kerio and Zone Alarm.

Don't depend on the built in XP firewall to protect against Trojans,
spyware, and anything that wants to call home, like XP itself!
 
donut said:
Sorry, but you are wrong. The only 2 firewalls I know of that
conflict are Kerio and Zone Alarm.

Don't depend on the built in XP firewall to protect against
Trojans, spyware, and anything that wants to call home, like XP
itself!
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I didn't assert that having more than 1 firewall leads
*systematically* to instability. I wrote that it would compromise
the system's stability. Firewalls mostly act on low levels of your
system ; having more than one on a given machine may lead to
stability problems, like having more than one anti-virus *real-time
monitor* running.
 
Yes it would ; having two or more software FW installed on the same
machine is not recommended at all ; it would compromise the system
stability.
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What the heck with it, your stability is
already compromised when you start XP :)

Anyway, I agree that I had downs in perfs
when using the incore XP FW *and* Kerio,
not more instable than whithout but loss
in throughput perfs from time to time,
especially while under UDP tempests.
 
Mel said:
I often use ICS to connect my pc via an XP machine running Kerio (currently 2.15)
as it's main firewall + XP firewall to 'stealth' it's ports.
Never a problem either.

XP's own firewall seems to get on well with other firewalls.
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I have XP's own firewall enabled together with Zone Alarm. No conflict
problems, but Zone Alarm tells me what it's doing -- I've never seen a
report from the XP firewall.

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