<p>Perhaps y'all can help me to understand something: what good does a software "firewall" do on Windows? They can be easily programmatically disabled by stealth software, so I fail to see the point. Seems to me that its better to whitelist the outbound connections by destination port on a real firewall at the network edge, since most baddies will use non-standard ports anyway.</p>
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<p>On Jul 20, 2010 1:56 PM, "Paul Cartwright" <<a href="mailto:ale@pcartwright.com">ale@pcartwright.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> On Tue July 20 2010, Ken Cochran wrote:<br>>> And while sorta on the subject, how about a firewall?<br>
>> ZoneAlarm seems to have become rather piggy too and I<br>>> remember a nasty bug it had a couple of years ago (DNS).<br>>> Doesn't work on Win2k anymore either. How is Comodo's?<br>>> Or is the Windows Firewall that showed up in XP sp2 or sp3<br>
>> (whatever it was...) "good enough?" Thanks, -kc<br>> <br>> Comodo IS a firewall, AND anti-virus! just not the big, ugly footprint of <br>> McAfee or Symantec...<br>> <br>> -- <br>> Paul Cartwright<br>
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