[NCSA-discuss] firewall for WinXP

[Jeff The Riffer]

On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Alan Porter wrote:
>> If you mean, can you put your Windows laptop on the Internet with a
>> firewall blocking all ports, sure. The only thing it would prevent would be 
>> resource sharing (files, printing, etc).
> And, of course, any services that you had installed on top of the base O/S.

Which will be inaccessible if you've got a firewall blocking all ports.

> Jeff, there's a lot of apps/services that listen on ports, not just 
> file/print sharing.

Heheh. I'm a CISSP. I'm aware of that, :)

> Joe, personally I would only run a Windows box behind a Linux firewall.

The brand of firewall is pretty much irrelevant as long as it's a 
functional, reliable one. I've used a Linksys WRTG54 router for years. It's 
a combined NAT/Firewall/Switch. Only traffic that can get into my PC is on 
the ports I've explicitly opened.

Of course, that does run Linux... Hmmm... :)


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