XP Firewall for Dummies?
I'm a child of Zone Alarm simply because it just asks if you want program so&so. exe to use the Internet or not. Everything else is taken care of. I tried playing with the built in firewall with my first build and it was clear that I was missing a few steps.
I'm a child of Zone Alarm simply because it just asks if you want program so&so.exe to use the Internet or not. Everything else is taken care of.
I tried playing with the built in firewall with my first build and it was clear that I was missing a few steps. By turning it on my friend wasn't able to send me any files in ICQ and other problems arose that made me turn it off.
Since Zone Alarm crashes and burns horribly in XP (so far at least) is there any web pages or whatever explaining how to use this built in feature for the Non-Zone Alarm challenged?
I tried playing with the built in firewall with my first build and it was clear that I was missing a few steps. By turning it on my friend wasn't able to send me any files in ICQ and other problems arose that made me turn it off.
Since Zone Alarm crashes and burns horribly in XP (so far at least) is there any web pages or whatever explaining how to use this built in feature for the Non-Zone Alarm challenged?
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Hey,
I had the same troubles with Zone Alarm and switched to the also free Tiny Personal Firewall. The Tiny Firewall works very similar as Zone Alarm, it just asks whether you want to allow internet access for a program or not but you can do some more configurations (e.g. allow only special ports for a program). I wouldn't use XP's built in firewall because... uhm, i just wouldn't
Have fun
Tiny URL: www.tinysoftware.com
I had the same troubles with Zone Alarm and switched to the also free Tiny Personal Firewall. The Tiny Firewall works very similar as Zone Alarm, it just asks whether you want to allow internet access for a program or not but you can do some more configurations (e.g. allow only special ports for a program). I wouldn't use XP's built in firewall because... uhm, i just wouldn't
Have fun
Tiny URL: www.tinysoftware.com
well, icq works fine with the built in firewall but I can't send nor recieve files, "a direct connection could not be established". Hope you all understood that. SO, the usual thing to do is to open up the firewall for icq file transfer and the question is how ? As I'm writing this I just remembered that www.icq.com has a guide how to open up the firewall for file transfers, which ports to open etc.
So, NaughtyNu check out http://www.icq.com/icqtour/firewall/netadmin.html on how to open up the built-in firewall. Personally I don't like all those "simple" firewalls like tiny or zone alarm even if they are good. I don't feel I have total control over those plus zone alarm stopped my internet from working after a while though I'd done nothing wrong. But as I said, that's my personal opinion so don't listen to me.
So, NaughtyNu check out http://www.icq.com/icqtour/firewall/netadmin.html on how to open up the built-in firewall. Personally I don't like all those "simple" firewalls like tiny or zone alarm even if they are good. I don't feel I have total control over those plus zone alarm stopped my internet from working after a while though I'd done nothing wrong. But as I said, that's my personal opinion so don't listen to me.
If you're getting that "Cannot establish direct connections" problem in ICQ, it might not have anything to do with the Firewall...
Preferences, Security & Privacy, Ignore tab - there's a checkbox that's probably checked off saying "Do not allow Direct Connections with older versions of ICQ"
My friend was plagued with this one and his auto receive never worked. He unclicked it and everything is good again
Preferences, Security & Privacy, Ignore tab - there's a checkbox that's probably checked off saying "Do not allow Direct Connections with older versions of ICQ"
My friend was plagued with this one and his auto receive never worked. He unclicked it and everything is good again
