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XP SP2 Firewall vs Zone Alarm
Thursday, 12 August 2004, 17:19 GMT

With SP2, XP finally has a built-in firewall. Great for the internet as a whole; bad for the companies that produce other software firewalls.

Now that XP comes with a firewall, should the average user uninstall and forget about their favorite software firewall?

No! Software firewalls do something that SP2's firewall does not do--block and filter outbound connections as well. The quote from Microsoft: "Windows Firewall will automatically allow all outbound connections, regardless of the program and the user context."

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