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Get Kerio:
http://www.kerio.com
It monitors outbound traffic, which is more important than inbound
traffic.
Saturday, June 14, 2003, 7:24:41 PM, you wrote:
RA> My understanding from someone who is running the XP firewall is that it
RA> monitors only inbound traffic. Exactly what it does and how it does it is
RA> a mystery. No software filter can hold a candle to a hardware firewall.
RA> Personally, I wouldn't want to trust Microsoft to keep any of my PCs secure :)
RA> ______________________________________
RA> At 10:04 PM 6/14/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>>My brother-in-law just got hooked up with a high speed internet connection.
>>He's running Windows XP and believes that he doesn't need a firewall as XP
>>has one built in.
>>
>>Is he right?
>>
>>Andrew
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