I thought it worked the other way. That is, the windows firewall protected you from incoming connections. Protecting from outgoing connections is like closing the barn door after the horse has bolted.
A more effective way of protecting yourself against malware is not run as an administrator and to ensure that your computer is fully patched. Pranav -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aruni Sharma Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 1:02 PM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Accessible firewall windows firewall only works for outgoing connections so it doesn't detect the incoming threats Regards, Pranav Lal wrote: > Hi, > > Your best bet is to go with a hardware firewall. Alternatively, the one > built-in to Windows XP is sufficient. > > Pranav > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Geetha Shamanna > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 10:03 PM > To: Access india > Subject: [AI] Accessible firewall > > Hello all, > > I am on the lookout for an accessible firewall that works well with Jaws. > Any recommendations? > > Thanks, > Geetha > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
