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Old 31-07-2007, 14:19   #10
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Re: Testing your firewall security

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Originally Posted by monkey2468 View Post
Intresting, I have no router and only have the xp sp2 standard firewall and running all those test says i am 100% secure!?
Run leaktest from above link you will fail that

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Originally Posted by Aragorn View Post
Why so surprised? The Windows firewall is pretty reasonable for free - where it mainly falls down is its (in)ability to prevent malware from connecting outbound. IIRC pretty much everything inbound is blocked by default.
Vistas firewall has outbound protection but its off by default .I use a simple app called vista forewall control that turns it on ond uses it .Ive had no probs at all with this app for a month or 2
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