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which is best,the new firewall in windows xp service pack 2 or zone alarms firewall.
i see that you can't have both installed.and when i run gibson research's shields up.zone alarm shows all ports closed yet when i run xp's firewall shields up shows all my computer ports stealth,which is better i know.
i suppose what i am asking is would you trust xp's firewall or zonealarm's.
I would go for SP2's firewall, it's more powerful since SP1, has some changes done to it and can even block applications now. What do other people think?
Whilst the SP2 firewall is an improvement on the version in SP1, it does not block malware "phoning home". Zone Alarm blocks inbound & outbound traffic.
I normally take articles from the Register with a pinch of salt, but this is worth a read:
There are issues with uninstalling ZA 4.5 on XP, as experienced by another forum member. I think the latest ZA is 5.1 - haven't heard anything bad about it but that could be because few people use ZA after the farce that was version 5
I use ZA Pro - it blocks dodgy attachments and is highly configurable.
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