is win xp firewall no good?

i use norton systemworks 2005....

works for virus,firewall the works

tis great

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Originally posted by batemanscott is win xp firewall no good?

yeah, i have xp with service pack 2, and she seems to work a real treat.

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firstly.. you mention you have a bit torrent client.

then you ask for a free software?@!

WTF!

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Originally posted by eRRaTiK looking for some firewall software. needs to be: - FREE - configurable - unbloated (ie. Norton) - won't stop azureus (bit torrent) from working what do you guys use? any suggestions?

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try zone alarm...that's not too bad....

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spacetribe!

lol.

norton is the devil. bloated pos that eats up resources.

had nav running and it detected no viruses but i noticed system performance dropping so i uninstalled the crap and installed AVG a freeware antivirus program, and it detectd 16 traces of a virus that is now going nuts on my pc. i'll need to reformat.

norton firewall is alright, but again i'm against norton software.

there are freeware firewall software available that is heaps better than the norton and others on the market. just wondering if any of you guys have used any of them or know of any.

don't have sp2 and xp firewall is limited in terms of configuration.

the bit torrent client was free too dave

thanks chris. i remember reading about zone alarm having issues with certain apps. i'll check it out.

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dude.. are you sure you even need a firewall? are you running behind an adsl router or something of that nature? they usually block most of the ports so much so that you have to free them up manually anyway.. thats why i dont run any firewall personally because i've just switched on which ports i need exclusively

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yeh i'm using a belkin wireless router atm however a lot of the sh** comes through the standard http ports. websites with activeX scripts and whatnot.

combating spyware is a bitch. things popping up here and there randomly. damn annoying.

my pc isn't half as bad as my dad's a few months ago. he had about 128 instances of spyware on his machine and it all began with a single click on a popup window.

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Like Dave said, if your ADSL modem is a router, then it has an in-built firewall, in which case using a software firewall will actually create issues in some cases. At work at the moment, have a link to a sight all about PC security and differnt free apps, will post when I get home

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What you're mentioning has nothing to do with a firewall....

sygate is ok too...