- New ADSL router query
- Posted by Trent SC on October 8th, 2004
Just installed my shiny new Buffalo Air Station G54 ADSL Wireless router,
which seems to have a fairly comprehensive firewall built in (you can tell
it's my first router - I've just upgraded from the Alcatel frog).
I'm running Windows XP Pro SP1 with the latest version of ZoneAlarm (free)
and I'm wondering if I need to have ZA now that the router is in place.
Ta muchly.
- Posted by Tony on October 8th, 2004
Trent SC <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote on Fri, 8 Oct 2004 at 19:11:54:
ZA gives you some protection against unauthorised *outgoing* traffic on
a program-by-program basis; the router firewall can't do that.
Noting that you're still on SP1, I was pleasantly surprised when the
upgrade to SP2 here detected that I was running ZA and automatically
kept it instead of enabling the SP2 firewall.
--
Tony
- Posted by Brian McIlwrath on October 8th, 2004
Tony <tonyh1nospam@hotair.demon.co.uk> wrote:
: Noting that you're still on SP1, I was pleasantly surprised when the
: upgrade to SP2 here detected that I was running ZA and automatically
: kept it instead of enabling the SP2 firewall.
ZA is better than the SP2 firewall. Clever of the upgrade to realise this!
- Posted by Tony on October 8th, 2004
Brian McIlwrath <bkm@bkmpc.bnsc.rl.ac.uk> wrote on Fri, 8 Oct 2004 at
18:58:55:
Indeed, although I'd like to know if SP2's "Firewall startup and
shutdown support" is matched by ZA.
--
Tony
- Posted by Simon Pleasants on October 11th, 2004
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 19:41:15 +0100, Tony
<tonyh1nospam@hotair.demon.co.uk> wrote:
Interesting. Mine detected ZA and told me it had, but enabled itself
anyway. This was the case with both of my home computers. Once I
disabled it, it then decided it would monitor the performance of ZA
and NAV. Since ZA also monitors NAV I decided to shut off SP2's
monitoring of everything before my machines started fall over
themselves with introspection!
