Re: The best Free Firewall software on the Internet

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ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite, version 6.5.722.000, will stop it cold.

You can even password protect your preferences and settings, so no one
(including a nefarious program) can change the settings and allow itself
internet access.

If anything tries to ride out on the back of a legitimate program, the
firewall will alert you to that also.

Windows Firewall will do NONE of this.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!



"UVP" <no1@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:pan.2006.07.09.21.13.02.200205@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 12:02:18 -0400, Richard Urban wrote:

No, I challenged the man to write a program that I will install on my
computer locally, once he sends it to me, that will look at a specified
folder and then communicate its contents to "wherever".

My firewall will NOT let that happen. I "will" get a warning, asking if I
want to allow internet access to occur. Of course, I will say NO!

Hence, he will not get the information, as the second half of my firewall
(outward bound) will have blocked internet access to his program. Nothing
will be transmitted.

Garrot is me. Sorry, I have three operating systems and don't have each
newsreader set the same. I am not a hacker/cracker so don't imply that I
am. What firewall do you use?


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