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Jo-W

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  1. seriously?  because from what I've read XP, firewall isn't sufficient.  The risk of outbound threats is serious enough to warrant a 3rd party firewall.  I've been testing the newest ZoneAlarm free for the last few days and so far I am impressed with it.  Hopefully I just won't run into some of the bugs that some people encounter with this program (and other programs, for that matter)

     

     

     

     

    Thing is, it is easy to bypass outbound firewalls. It is possible to manipulate other software (ex. Internet explorer) which are allowed on your firewall, to send data and retrieve files and such. (im not talking about using internet explorer DLL's)

    Also, if you dont get infected, there is no need for an outbound firewall.

    The reason why outbound firewalls work is because there aren't many malwares which do this

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