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Re: Personal Firewall: Revisited
de jmatt 05/29/2006 02:10
AlleyCat wrote:
> I know this has been discussed recently but... I have use ZoneAlarm for many years and have found it to work very well.
Here is some extra food for thought, extract from link below.
It's time to toss out your antivirus software
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=234
Every third party firewall product such as ZoneAlarm and Kerio have
exposed the very users they're suppose to protect to complete system
level compromise.
Ironically the built in Windows XP SP2 firewall which always gets
unfairly picked on has never had any remote exploits. Sure it doesn't
provide any outbound packet filtering which is only relevant if my
computer is already owned in which case any firewall could be disabled
anyways, but at least it doesn't leave me wide open to a remote
attacker.
Is the XP SP2 firewall getting a raw deal?
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=81