JPmoney wrote:
lau wrote:
The firewall can be just the built-in XP one. It's adequate for "normal" users, although I have used the free version of Zone Alarm in the past.
Yeah, but the XP firewall is only one-way. Won't the "normal" user be vulnerable to that?
If you let malicious software into your machine, and let it run, it can then access the internet. Now, I rather feel that blocking such access with a firewall is very much "closing the stable door after the horse has bolted".
Actually, it's worse. If malicious software is already running inside your machine, I can see no great problem in it killing your firewall. After all, 99.99% of Windows users run with administrator privileges, all the time, as security on Windows is so badly kludged.
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