Thanks for the info. It helped.
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Mike S


"Ken Blake" wrote:

Mike wrote:

I have just finished loading SP2 and want to know if I should keep my
firewall (zone alarm) and anti-virus (avast) or use Microsoft
antivirus and firewall. Which would be better?



First of all, regarding Avast, you have no choice to use Microsoft
antivirus, because there is no Microsoft anti-virus, neither in SP2 nor
before it. Avast is a good choice and I would stay with it.

Regarding the firewall, the XP firewall monitors incoming traffic, but does
nothing to stop spyware programs trying to call home. It also is much less
configurable than other choices (although it's much improved in SP2). For
those reasons I recommend the free version of ZoneAlarm instead.

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Ken Blake
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