John Doe wrote:
From: mark m.roth@5-cent.us
Kai Schaetzl wrote:
Mhr wrote on Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:50:27 -0800:
would it be a bad idea (or a complete waste) to use a firewall, like ZoneAlarm, on my Windows guest OS?
Yes, using ZA is a bad idea. XP has its own firewall which is enabled by default if you are patched up-to-date. Keep that on.
Huh? I've *NEVER* heard great things about WinDoze firewall, and the std. from the fairly heavy duty folks I know who support WinDoze is that the std for non-commercial is ZoneAlarm.
Personaly, I use ZoneAlarm 'mainly' for the outbound blocking. I like to know (and allow/disalow) when an application tries to phone home...
JD
Personally, I have had Zone Alarm mess up it's ACL a few times and block applications in it's allow list. I normally firewall else where & use Windows Firewall for internal stuff, the Windows Firewall in Windows7 supports an ACL for inbound and outbound rules.
HTH