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Hi. Is XP SP2's Firewall as good as Mcafee's or
Norton's? So all you would need to add is just a VirusScanner. Thanks, Craig. |
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The XP Firewall only monitors incoming access to your PC, not outgoing access to the Internet. I would suggest that a 3rd party '2-way' Firewall is installed as well as a Virus Scanning program. -- Will Denny MVP - Windows Shell/User Please reply to the News Groups wrote in message ... Hi. Is XP SP2's Firewall as good as Mcafee's or Norton's? So all you would need to add is just a VirusScanner. Thanks, Craig. |
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XP's Firewall is still lacking. It does not block outgoing traffic.
Meaning, if you should contract a trojan horse, you'll never know it's phoning home. I have been using ZoneAlarm, but am thinking about trying out a few others. Though, you can't pay me enough to use Nortons Firewall......... wrote in message ... Hi. Is XP SP2's Firewall as good as Mcafee's or Norton's? So all you would need to add is just a VirusScanner. Thanks, Craig. |
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Greetings --
WinXP's built-in firewall is _adequate_ at stopping incoming attacks, and hiding your ports from probes. What WinXP also does not do, is protect you from any Trojans or spyware that you (or someone else using your computer) might download and install inadvertently. It doesn't monitor out-going traffic at all, other than to check for IP-spoofing, much less block (or at even ask you about) the bad or the questionable out-going signals. It assumes that any application you have on your hard drive is there because you want it there, and therefore has your "permission" to access the Internet. Further, because the ICF is a "stateful" firewall, it will also assume that any incoming traffic that's a direct response to a Trojan's or spyware's out-going signal is also authorized. ZoneAlarm, Kerio, or Sygate are all much better than WinXP's built-in firewall, and are much more easily configured, and there are free versions of each readily available. Even the commercially available Symantec's Norton Personal Firewall is superior by far, although it does take a heavier toll of system performance then do ZoneAlarm or Sygate. Bruce Chambers -- Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. - RAH wrote in message ... Hi. Is XP SP2's Firewall as good as Mcafee's or Norton's? So all you would need to add is just a VirusScanner. Thanks, Craig. |
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It seems odd, to me, that Windows would release this huge major SP2 and not
address something as basic as outbound activity. I mean, I am constantly reading description of "Critical" updates addressing "security issues" and here we are saying run a third-party firewall for protection. But I guess something IS better than nothing, *unless* it gives one a false sense of security. ZA here. But since Windows never identifies the exact names of components needing to pass ZA firewall, I had to trial and error my way through priveliges to get ftp apps to connect. You have to "trust" you are not allowing bogus apps that only pose as Microsoft elements. When will they publish the *names* of component apps in "more info", not just describe what they will do? i.e. "Application Layer Gateway Services", which needs server priveliges before an ftp client will connect to the remote machine. "Will Denny" wrote in message ... Hi The XP Firewall only monitors incoming access to your PC, not outgoing access to the Internet. I would suggest that a 3rd party '2-way' Firewall is installed as well as a Virus Scanning program. -- Will Denny MVP - Windows Shell/User Please reply to the News Groups wrote in message ... Hi. Is XP SP2's Firewall as good as Mcafee's or Norton's? So all you would need to add is just a VirusScanner. Thanks, Craig. |
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On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 19:18:03 -1000, WindowsXP-he wrote:
It seems odd, to me, that Windows would release this huge major SP2 and not address something as basic as outbound activity. I mean, I am constantly reading description of "Critical" updates addressing "security issues" and here we are saying run a third-party firewall for protection. But I guess something IS better than nothing, *unless* it gives one a false sense of security. ZA here. But since Windows never identifies the exact names of components needing to pass ZA firewall, I had to trial and error my way through priveliges to get ftp apps to connect. You have to "trust" you are not allowing bogus apps that only pose as Microsoft elements. When will they publish the *names* of component apps in "more info", not just describe what they will do? i.e. "Application Layer Gateway Services", which needs server priveliges before an ftp client will connect to the remote machine. There's nothing wrong with installing a two way firewall. It's a belt and suspenders approach. Just keep in mind that whatever is trying to get out has already been allowed in -intentionally or not. If your inbound traffic is monitored, you've already blocked most intrusions. Most threats that remain are self-inflicted (double clicking attachments, running downloaded files without scanning, hitchhiking malware installed by some software, etc). Using a two way firewall increases the chances of early detection of these unwanted elements. Antivirus and anti-spyware programs should eventually pick up the ball as the virus/malware definitions are updated. It's also a good idea to block the installation of browser helpers in your browser's security settings. -- Sharon F MS-MVP ~ Windows XP Shell/User |
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Hmmmm, that was not my experience with spyware I finally booted, with
Spybot-Search and Destroy. I must have hit a malicious site, but I know that I never EVER install questionable "plug-ins" or the like, "required to view this page". In the case I refer to, my homepage got hi-jacked, repeatedly. It over-road my Google pop-up blocker, spawning window after window of ads, added its own search bar, etc.. The thing was replicating itself, changing it's filenames. When I finally hacked the homepage-hijacking and searchbar out of my system, it was ZoneAlarm that alerted me the same old malware was trying to phone home (outgoing). That's when I installed Spybot. Did a complete job of removing the culprit. There is an extremely remote possibility I accepted anything posing as a legitimate plug-in... next to none. "Sharon F" wrote in message ... There's nothing wrong with installing a two way firewall. It's a belt and suspenders approach. Just keep in mind that whatever is trying to get out has already been allowed in -intentionally or not. If your inbound traffic is monitored, you've already blocked most intrusions. Most threats that remain are self-inflicted (double clicking attachments, running downloaded files without scanning, hitchhiking malware installed by some software, etc). Using a two way firewall increases the chances of early detection of these unwanted elements. Antivirus and anti-spyware programs should eventually pick up the ball as the virus/malware definitions are updated. It's also a good idea to block the installation of browser helpers in your browser's security settings. -- Sharon F MS-MVP ~ Windows XP Shell/User |
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If you install Zone Alarm Pro on XP do you have to disable the XP firewall?
If they can't run side by side how do you disable XPs? Thanks "Bruce Chambers" wrote in message ... Greetings -- WinXP's built-in firewall is _adequate_ at stopping incoming attacks, and hiding your ports from probes. What WinXP also does not do, is protect you from any Trojans or spyware that you (or someone else using your computer) might download and install inadvertently. It doesn't monitor out-going traffic at all, other than to check for IP-spoofing, much less block (or at even ask you about) the bad or the questionable out-going signals. It assumes that any application you have on your hard drive is there because you want it there, and therefore has your "permission" to access the Internet. Further, because the ICF is a "stateful" firewall, it will also assume that any incoming traffic that's a direct response to a Trojan's or spyware's out-going signal is also authorized. ZoneAlarm, Kerio, or Sygate are all much better than WinXP's built-in firewall, and are much more easily configured, and there are free versions of each readily available. Even the commercially available Symantec's Norton Personal Firewall is superior by far, although it does take a heavier toll of system performance then do ZoneAlarm or Sygate. Bruce Chambers -- Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. - RAH wrote in message ... Hi. Is XP SP2's Firewall as good as Mcafee's or Norton's? So all you would need to add is just a VirusScanner. Thanks, Craig. |
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JMAX typed: If you install Zone Alarm Pro on XP do you have to disable the XP firewall? If they can't run side by side how do you disable XPs? Have to? No, but my view is that you shouldn't run two firewalls. You achieve no extra protection, you incur the extra overhead of running two firewalls, and you run the risk (probably small, but not zero) of conflicts between them. -- Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup |
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