[ale] Free, trustworthy, anti-virus software

[Michael Trausch]

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.

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On Jul 20, 2010 1:56 PM, "Paul Cartwright" <ale at pcartwright.com> wrote:
> On Tue July 20 2010, Ken Cochran wrote:
>> And while sorta on the subject, how about a firewall?
>> ZoneAlarm seems to have become rather piggy too and I
>> remember a nasty bug it had a couple of years ago (DNS).
>> Doesn't work on Win2k anymore either.  How is Comodo's?
>> Or is the Windows Firewall that showed up in XP sp2 or sp3
>> (whatever it was...) "good enough?"  Thanks, -kc
>
> Comodo IS a firewall, AND anti-virus! just not the big, ugly footprint of
> McAfee or Symantec...
>
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