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James
On another forum someone suggested that running two firewalls (i.e.
WinXP's firewall plus a 3rd party firewall) afforded extra protection.
When I countered that most advised against this due to potential
conflicts, he answered:
One problem w/ the way you formulate "two firewalls" is, this is not as
if I were running Sygate with ZA, it's running ICF/WFW w/ Sygate which
is a different matter. They don't operate on the same level. WFW "front
ends" Sygate on my system and would on any other. There are 3rd party
firewalls that you can't do this with - Symantec's and I think Kerio as
well.
About your other point: as I wrote in one of my posts, I insist on
having outbound App control and advanced rule making - shutting down
ports, restricting apps to a single port and so on. Others have
different ways of controling those things. WFW does have the abilty to
close a port to a process. And I have other ways to control applications
via a application "firewall" - in my case System Safety Monitor. There
is another one called Process Guard by the TDS people and more of these
kinds of programs on the way.
WinXP's firewall plus a 3rd party firewall) afforded extra protection.
When I countered that most advised against this due to potential
conflicts, he answered:
One problem w/ the way you formulate "two firewalls" is, this is not as
if I were running Sygate with ZA, it's running ICF/WFW w/ Sygate which
is a different matter. They don't operate on the same level. WFW "front
ends" Sygate on my system and would on any other. There are 3rd party
firewalls that you can't do this with - Symantec's and I think Kerio as
well.
About your other point: as I wrote in one of my posts, I insist on
having outbound App control and advanced rule making - shutting down
ports, restricting apps to a single port and so on. Others have
different ways of controling those things. WFW does have the abilty to
close a port to a process. And I have other ways to control applications
via a application "firewall" - in my case System Safety Monitor. There
is another one called Process Guard by the TDS people and more of these
kinds of programs on the way.