XP firewall - useful or not?

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Conor said:
Knowing JADs methodology, he went to GRC.com and ran a scan.
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Knowing your readily apparent as well as announced bias I can't place any
stock in your opinion on the matter.
 
JAD wrote:

True and I guess it disqualifies myself as I do not use a FW only, I use
port nannies along with it.
Simply, all 'things' enter or leave via some port......can't happen here,
because ALL my ports, real and virtual are watched along with UDP and TCP
packets with the FW. Most things coming ' in' Are the main concern,
Exactly.

however
there are certain software producer that use the 'AUTO update' feature to
check for bogus serials numbers and numerous other things that were not
necessarily agreed upon via the license.
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Those may be of concern but that's a different level of 'security' than
what most people are trying to deal with. They're looking for protection
from blatantly malicious attacks.
I don't think its necessary to
upload known contaminants to your system to check a FW, unless that was my
job and my systems were merely cannon fodder.
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Of course not. But then one can't make a definitive statement about how
effective something is if it hasn't been tested either.

All those things combined is the point. That the robustness of the outbound
firewall should be rather moot since nothing should get in to begin with in
order for the robustness to be an issue.
 
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