Author Topic: XP firewall (Read 924 times)

Lona · « **on:** February 14, 2005, 17:50 »

Is there any versions of XP that doesn't come with built in firewall?

My friend who has XP has been getting lots of adware installed on her pc and I was checking and couldn't find xp firewall anywhere on her system.

I ran ad-aware and found 96 entries some of which were rated High.

Camstop · « **Reply #1 on:** February 14, 2005, 18:04 »

The XP firewall was only introduced in the sp2 update lona and wasn't on before that.

Clive · « **Reply #2 on:** February 14, 2005, 18:10 »

I think that XP has always had a firewall but it was turned OFF by default. SP2 changed it to always ON. I'm not sure how good the firewall is though Lona. :?

Clive · « **Reply #3 on:** February 14, 2005, 18:12 »

Oh I think I just repeated what Cammy said!

"Pieces of eight Pieces of eight"

Simon · « **Reply #4 on:** February 14, 2005, 18:19 »

Best thing is to tell her to get SP2, or a third party firewall, such as Sygate, or Zone Alarm. Non-SP2 Windows did have a firewall, but it only monitored incoming traffic, and as has already been said, was not enabled by default.

sam · « **Reply #5 on:** February 14, 2005, 18:36 »

get zone alarm or pay for norton... both excellent products.. better still ditch windows (man fighting a cause here! but using windose at the moment, argh!)

TR · « **Reply #6 on:** February 14, 2005, 20:08 »

Spyware blaster is also useful to stop some spyware getting on the PC's

TR 8)