Re: which firewall for XP home

"nospam" <nospam@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:ejjRGXAegGtDFw+W@nospam.demon.co.uk...
> Hi,
>
> I am about to get a new PC with windows XP home on it.
>
> Should I use the MS firewall or disable it and use the zonealarm firewall
> that I am familiar with?
>

If this is a DSL or Broadband connection, then I wouldn't bother with either
one and would go for a NAT router that does traffic logging. You could
supplement the NAT router with IPsec that's on the XP O/S that's a packet
filter that can stop inbound or outbound traffic to/from the machine by
port, protocol or IP. You can get a NAT router cheap about as cheap as you
paying for that ZA renewal fee.

Duane :)
Received on Tue Jan 3 03:40:07 2006