Re: WinXP SP2 firewall

Alan Illeman wrote:
> "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.

It's more than "just one opinion". He gave a lot of good reasons, though
you obviously chose to ignore them.

> I'm running Win2K Pro, SP4, FAT32 instead of the more complicated
> NTFS, always run as Admin

Well, having different users on FAT32 would be utterly pointless anyway,
wouldn't it?

> and have been virus free for three years - because of the so-called
> "Personal" firewall, Kerio 2.1.5

That's plain wrong, because no firewall protects you from virii. When a
firewall detects an infection you're already toast.

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