I agree, even the free version of Zonealarm is superior to the XP firewall,
turn that lousy thing off.
Rascal
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From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On Behalf Of andy levy
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 11:06 PM
To: dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net
Subject: Re: DML: (Off-Topic) Windows XP SP2 ..."Pain in the @$$"
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On 10/28/2004 10:45 PM, Kyle Vanditmars wrote:
| I haven't had any problems on the XP Home machine it's installed on in the
| household. However, windows firewall seems to be a REAL bastard about
| letting SMB shares be seen over the network, at least using NetBIOS name
| resolution - connecting directly to the IP SEEMS to work. My CUPS
| configuration and SMB shares on my SuSE 9.1 Linux laptop stopped working
| after the SP2 update, even though I have File/Printer Sharing turned
on for
| the XP box and enabled in the firewall. Probably just gonna turn the
| stupid security center garbage off and disable the firewall.
I've disabled the Windows firewall on our PCs. I have a hardware
firewall that does a superb job of bouncing attack attempts, and we keep
our computers clean of spyware and the like.
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