Additional firewall really needed?

[Bill Hates]

XP's ICF works great, I had never any intrusion til
now...Is an additional firewall really needed??? I see
many people using freewares like ZoneAlarm...... Paranoia?

 

[res]

extra one will not hurt system.
better to get.......

spybot
ad-aware

 

[JMI]

Plus firewalls like ZoneAlarm and Norton Personal Firewall will alert you
when a program on your system attempts to access the internet. You then
have the option to either allow or deny that program access to the internet.
These firewalls will help block certain trojan horse viruses from sending
private information back to the slimly bastard who created the virus.

Jeff

 

[Ramesh]

Hi,

XP's ICF blocks only incoming attacks very effectively. However, if there is
any trojan planted in the system, ICF won't monitor it. In this case, an
application based firewall such as ZoneAlarm or Sygate would do the trick.
It asks you which application you want to allow access to the internet. So,
if a trojan attempts to access the internet (outgoing), you can easily trace
it with an app based firewall.

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XP's ICF works great, I had never any intrusion til
now...Is an additional firewall really needed??? I see
many people using freewares like ZoneAlarm...... Paranoia?

 

[Bill Hates]

OK guys I'll give a try on one of those apps, however I
read about conflicts with systems by using ZoneAlarm.
Last week installed ad-aware which found
several 'spywares', guess most of them were dancing
herein from long time ago.
Thanks for ur suggestions.

 

[Gray@FA]

Then why use Zone Alarm? There are many more free firewalls out there. Tiny
Personal Firewall just to name one.

 

[G Force]

-----Original Message-----
XP's ICF works great, I had never any intrusion til
now...Is an additional firewall really needed??? I see
many people using freewares like ZoneAlarm...... Paranoia?

.

I'm not paranoid but I DID want the extra functionality
offered by other firewall apps including ad and pop-up
blocking. I also dont trust ICF.....look how many
vunerabilities have to be patched, and we're now in the
situation of having to patch previous patches!

 

[dev]

Bill Hates said:

XP's ICF works great, I had never any intrusion til
now...Is an additional firewall really needed??? I see
many people using freewares like ZoneAlarm...... Paranoia?

If you rarely install software, and only from reputable sources, the
built-in firewall may be all that's needed. It's wise to occasionally
check for intruders, using http://www.lavasoftusa.com (AdAware) or similar
utils, and to use virus checkers on suspect attachments and files.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

WinXP's built-in firewall is fine at stopping incoming attacks, and
hiding all of your ports from probes. It doesn't give you any alarms
to tell you that it is working, though. What WinXP also does not do,
is protect you from any Trojans or spyware that you might download and
install inadvertently. It doesn't monitor out-going traffic at all,
much less block (or at least ask you about) the bad or the
questionable out-going packets.

ZoneAlarm, Kerio, or Sygate are much better, and there are a free
versions available. Personally, I've been very happy with Symantec's
Norton Internet Security 2002 (NIS 2004 is now available), which
includes Norton AntiVirus, Norton Personal Firewall, parental
controls, privacy controls, and ad blocking. (Just the elimination of
many of the pop-up ads on the Internet made the price worth-while to
me.)


Bruce Chambers

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[Mike Matheny]

SpyBot is much better than AdAware.

 

[Alex Nichol]

XP's ICF works great, I had never any intrusion til
now...Is an additional firewall really needed??? I see
many people using freewares like ZoneAlarm....

The inbuilt one only covers incoming probes - not spyware, trojans and
the like trying to phone out. Also the inbuilt one can be considerably
more difficult to configure for special cases

You certainly want to turn the inbuilt one on immediately, before
connecting to the net for the very first time (There is an option to do
so while setting up the connection - unfortunately it defaults to
'off'). If you have no troubles with 'phone home' or with
configuration, it does the job perfectly well