Re: XP2 and router firewalls

From: Steve Winograd [MVP] (winograd_at_pobox.com)
Date: 08/27/04 

Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 04:56:58 -0600

In article <BYSdnWf1yfiVLbPcRVn-iQ@comcast.com>, "Ken Wampach"
<NOSPAM@myisp.com> wrote:
>>From what I have seen in this group, the consensus seemed to be
>that ICF was unnecessary if your LAN was behind a router with
>the fire wall enabled. In my case, I have a D-Link DI-604 with
>all ports blocked. I get "Full Stealth" mode from "Shields Up"
>at www.grc.com after I routed Port 113 to 192.168.0.200 which is
>well out of range of any of my machines. Their are 4 computers
>on the network in a home office used only by my wife and me, so
>I have things very open on the LAN.
>
>My question is whether their is any need for the SP2 firewall in
>this configuration, when, and if, I get up the courage to try
>SP2?

I'd run the SP2 firewall, too. Unlike XP's original Internet
Connection Firewall, the new Windows Firewall is easy to configure to
allow file and printer sharing on the LAN while blocking other,
undesired types of access between the LAN computers. For example, if
one LAN computer became infected with something like the Blaster worm,
the Windows Firewall would prevent the worm from infecting the rest of
the computers. 

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