On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Fred Holmes <f...@his.com> wrote: > Before even enabling any Internet connection, install Zone Alarm Free and > set it to "ask" on "everything." Then you can comfortably install whatever > you really want at leisure without worrying about an external attack. Of > course, if you have stateful packet inspection enabled on your router, you > are pretty safe anyway. > > Zone alarm is too big a hog to use. The M$ firewall is sufficient for my purposes especially behind a NAT router.
I would rather put a fairly up to date machine on the web to get the final windows updates. A pre sp2 XP machine is just too vulnerable. -- John Duncan Yoyo -------------------------------o) ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
