Re: Windows firewall: is it sufficient?

Windows firewall is all I use - you won't get alerts from it like you
did from Kaspersky but it will stop incoming attacks.

Regarding Spyware, I assume you are talking about Windows AntiSpyware
or it's latest name Windows Defender. The difference you are seeing
may be because Spybot will pick up tracking cookies and Defender won't
- that is by design. Cookies are not a big issue.

John Allen

On 4 Mar 2006 12:18:58 -0800, james_gatsby@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I've just kicked out Kaspersky firewall + antivirus because of problems
and I was wondering whether to stick to the Windows integrated
firewall from now on.

I'm a bit worried because the Kaspersky warned me of "Lovesan attacks"
and "Helkern attacks" within minutes of my connecting to the Internet.
The Windows integrated firewall has yet to warn me of anything and I've
been surfing for nearly an hour already.

The windows anti-malaware programm, for instance, is no good in my
opinion: it never detected anything at all on my PC while Spybot now
always detects a few spywares.

Any advice?

.

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