web conferencing and security

[mastermiaow]

I was asked a question regarding the above today and I thought someone might
be able to help.....
The questioner has XP professional and uses a MSN web conferencing software
that prohibits a firewall. He was worried about security issues and what he
could do to prevent viruses and others listening in. He uses it to
communicate with grandaughter, He already uses Norton antivirus.
I am not sure if there is any web conferencing software that allows firewall
but maybe there are specfific security programs that work with web
conferencing?

 

[John Barnett - MVP]

As he is comunicating with his grand-daughter one assumes that he would be
using msn messenger. In what way does this prohibit a firewall? I use msn
messenger often and ever have any problems wth my firewall. Having said
that, I have disabled he xp firewall and replaced it with Zone Alarm. They
do a free version or a to buy version at www.zonelabs.com I've used both
without any problems. Strangely enough as soon as you fire up zone alarm the
fire time d messenger is running it immedately asks if you want to allow msn
messenger to access the internet.

Hope this helps

John Barnett - MVP
Associate Expert