Re: About windows xp home firewall

From: Mark Swift [MSFT] (mswift_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/03/04 

Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 15:49:19 -0800

ICF works and is supported on LAN connections. If you need file and printer
sharing ports opened, that is doable. If that doesn't work, then it sounds
like a bug. Using ICF and configuring it correctly isn't the easiest thing
in the world, so I understand why you advise people to only use it for their
modem connections. Hopefully SP2 will fix that. 

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"Steve Winograd [MVP]" <winograd@pobox.com> wrote in message 
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> In article <OCMCrY8$DHA.2432@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl>, "Mark Swift
> [MSFT]" <mswift@online.microsoft.com> wrote:
>>"CheshireCat" <blah@blah.c0m> wrote in message
>>news:OldArPL%23DHA.3568@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>>>You should install another firewall. ICF is only for use when connecting
>>>to the www directly via modem and doesn't support LANs.
>>
>>ICF definitely supports LANs.
>
> Would you please explain your statement, Mark?
>
> In my experience, ICF blocks file and printer sharing, making it
> unsuitable for use on most LANs.  I advise people to enable ICF only
> on a direct modem (dial-up, DSL, cable) connection to the Internet,
> where it's needed to block Internet hackers.
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