What FireWall to run?

Italy Anonymous Remailer wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@anonymous.poster:

You can use IPsec in conjunction with XP's PFW solution and you can stop all the inbound and outbound traffic you want with IPsec.

If it cause that much drain on your system then you're going to have problems with anything that works.

Get a simple NAT Router.

Windows XP built-in firewall plus an anti-spyware application (MS' AntiSpyware works great)

Thank you for the responces.

"Wayne" wrote in news:d68i6l$nrr$ snipped-for-privacy@domitilla.aioe.org:

A friend of mine says the built-in XP firewall fails the basic security leak test:

Kind regards

-- encoderX -

The leaktest is designed to test 'internal extrusion' as opposed to 'external intrusion'^1 -- the XP 'firewall' or ICF is designed^2 to monitor external intrusion. You would need a software internal extrusion defense such as ZoneAlarm to pass the leaktest.

MS AntiSpyware^3 is a spyware detector and remover, it isn't an internal extrusion defense either and also would not help with the leaktest.

^1