I just installed Zone Alarm firewall

The odds of conflict are not high. However, you can disable Windows XP's firewall in favor of Zone Alarm, since ZA does a better job.

XP's firewall only monitors incoming traffic. It does not monitor outgoing traffic so if you got a Trojan on your machine it would remain undetected while is was "phoning home". ZoneAlarm is a much better solution. I use Zonealarm Pro, and I have disabled the XP firewall since I can't see what it's doing.

In Message-ID: posted on Thu, 12 Aug 2004 18:47:05 +0200, Ronald wrote: Begin

I recently switched to etrust EZFirewall v4.5, which appears to be very much like an enhanced version of the old ZAFree it replaced. My experience with XP-Pro was that the vsmon in ZA wouldn't load or something was preventing it from enabling ZA. I haven't revisited XP-Pro to try this etrust EZF, but was wondering if I might expect the same results. I'm having great performance with 98SE and this EZF, so am in no hurry to downgrade back to XP-Pro. ;-)

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XP's firewall only monitors incoming traffic. It does not monitor outgoing traffic so if you got a Trojan on your machine it would remain undetected while is was "phoning home". ZoneAlarm is a much better solution. I use Zonealarm Pro, and I have disabled the XP firewall since I can't see what it's doing.