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Originally Posted by maxtoralias
For the perpetually paranoid, the windows inbuilt firewall has very limited functionality as you cannot prevent already installed programs from accessing the internet as it only protects from inbound traffic. I use ZA Pro with combined anti-virus on my laptop and have had no problems at all with any of the programs I use.
I have also used the recommended Sygate personal firewall and found this also to be very good.
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This link may be of use to decide on the relative merits of the inbuilt XP firewall http://www.brienposey.com/kb/windows_xp_firewall.asp. This is not definitive but gives a realistic appraisal of its effectiveness in my view. |
That's the trouble with these computer thingies, you can never get a simple answer to a simple question! Very interesting article, but I'm now confused as what to do for the best. I suppose I'll just have to accept that life is never as straightforward as you would like it to be; make a decision and go with it!