comp.security.firewalls archive
Re: WinXP SP2 firewall
From: Alan Illeman <illemann@surfbest.net>
Date: Wed Dec 14 2005 - 13:51:34 CET
Date: Wed Dec 14 2005 - 13:51:34 CET
"Kyle Stedman" <kyle_st@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:Xns972BC66354474kylest@69.28.186.158...
>
> Only idiots use personal software firewalls. Get a NAT router with SPI.
> See this, from http://www.samspade.org/d/firewalls.html
>
>
> "Personal Firewalls" are mostly snake-oil
Just one opinion, that's all. I'm running Win2K Pro, SP4, FAT32 instead of
the more complicated NTFS, always run as Admin and have been virus free
for three years - because of the so-called "Personal" firewall, Kerio 2.1.5
I check with Grisoft AVG7 (subscription).
Received on Fri Dec 23 20:07:40 2005