Re: Firewall question

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

From: Bruce Chambers (bchambers_at_nospamcableone.net)
Date: 06/03/04 

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 19:36:53 -0600

Greetings --

    Thanks. I'll have to modify my response, once SP2 becomes widely
available. For the meantime, however, Microsoft still recommends
using only one firewall at a time.

Bruce Chambers 

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>
> Bruce:
>
> From:
>
http://www.datamonitor.com/~5c7358e23c854732a08e2e8b45604dfa~/industries/news/article/?pid=64C53C06-1FFA-49DA-9996-AE44657D9194&type=NewsWire
>
> "Microsoft Corp expects users of its forthcoming Windows XP Service
Pack 2
> to run the new Windows Firewall alongside existing personal
firewalls..."
> "We've been doing an awful lot of compatibility testing including
what will
> happen if you have multiple firewalls on," said Rebecca Norlander,
group
> manager of Microsoft's Security Business and Technology Unit, during
the
> webcast.
> While we recommend that you keep Windows firewall on, especially so
you get
> the boot protection, it will be up to you to configure how that
works with
> another firewall product," Norlander said. "We don't think anything
adverse
> would happen"
>
> OT: Also, note an impt feature of ICF2:
> "The boot protection feature means that the firewall will load and
start
> protecting the PC before Windows has finished booting up. Most
current
> software firewalls leave the PC vulnerable during the seconds before
they
> execute"
>
> And, note that I am writing this in Win XP Pro SR2 RC1 with the
following
> three firewalls enabled w/o problems:
> ICF2
> ZA free
> BID
>
>

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