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  1. cmaldona

    cmaldona Regular member

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    My system says that at least one firewall is active. How do I figure out which one is active?
     
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    do you have sp2 for xp & if so than look in control panel.
     
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    i bet youve got the xp firewall running along with zone alarm free....

    turn off the xp firewall, zone alarm free is great but if you get zone alarm pro like me then you wont theese crappy problems like i used to get where zone alarm free started to disable the internet;(
     
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    I have SP 2002, SP2. Actually, I had to remove ZoneAlarm because it conflicts with Avast but my system still shows now that Windows Firewall is on.

    Thank you very much.
     
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    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    sp2 comes with a firewall
     
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    well acualy my next door neighbours running avast free with zone alarm free, no conflicting for him, i think youve got service pack 2's firewall running...(turn it off)
     
  7. cmaldona

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    Do you think Zone Alarm is better than XP SP2's?
     
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    @cmaldona


    Anything is better than Windows own firewall.

    Here are a few that are free.

    - Zone Alarm http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/catalog/products/sku_list_za.jsp

    - Kerio Personal Firewall http://www.sunbelt-software.com/Kerio-Download.cfm

    - Outpost Firewall http://www.agnitum.com/products/outpostfree/download.php

    - Tiny Personal Firewall http://www.webmasterfree.com/tpfw.html

    - Comodo Personal Firewall http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/

    - Jetico Personal firewall http://www.jetico.com/

    - Primedius Firewall Lite http://www.primedius.com/PersonalFirewall.htm

    - Securepoint Personal Firewall http://www.securepoint.cc/en/products-pcfirewall.html

    - Softperfect Personal Firewall http://www.softperfect.com/products/firewall/

    - WyvernWorks Firewall http://www.wyvernworks.com/firewall.html

    - Adorons Firewall http://www.enigmasoftwaregroup.com/products.shtml

    - R-Firewall http://www.r-firewall.com/

    - SafeZone / Minute Personal Firewall http://www.minutegroup.com/prodpg_safezone.ht

    - Omniquad Personal firewall http://www.omniquad.com/pfirewall.htm

    - BartWare Personal Firewall http://www.soft14.com/Internet_and_communication/Privacy_and_Secu...

    - b-Wall http://www.sphinx-soft.com/XP/order.html

    - Goldtach http://www.goldtach.com/

    - Filseclab Personal Firewal http://www.filseclab.com/eng/download/downloads.htm
    - Look n Stop Lite http://www.spychecker.com/program/looknstop.html

    - SensiveGuard http://www.sensiveguard.com/


    ZoneAlarm, Kerio and Outpost are all worth a try.
     
  9. cmaldona

    cmaldona Regular member

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    Thank you very much. Your answer was very well taken.
     
  10. rav009

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    zone alarm free will be enough for you, just get that.

    i think the best firewall out there at the minuet is zone alarm pro.
     
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    Thank you very much. I installed Zone Alarm combined with AVG. Antivir was not functioning properly.
     
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    rav009 Active member

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    cmaldona, wasnt you a newbie yesterday?
     
  13. cmaldona

    cmaldona Regular member

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    Yes. I do not know how my "status" changed.
     
  14. ddp

    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    25 posts or more changes you from newbie to junior
     
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    every thread ive seen you in so far is one youve started, you start alot of threads, thats a very good way to get thoose posts up btw, shame i didnt do that when i was a newbie, in fact i think ive only ever started 2...
    keep it up.
    lol,there was a good pic here but its too big so i took it off.

    heres the link though http://www.trimpe.org/jr/pictures/startmanythreads.jpg
     
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    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    your link doesn't work
     
  17. rav009

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    ddp it was working earlier, thats what it was though, its alot funnier in the other post as it was alot more apropriate.

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