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To: Nick Morvay who wrote (12734)	9/25/2001 8:07:57 AM
From: Dale Baker	Respond to of 14778

Agreed, the resource hit on this PC is not much. In the past I had Trojan attack warnings regular with NIS. Looks like I finally have the setup running, with everything linked and networked and happy at last. Now the key is not to mess with it. ;<)

To: Nick Morvay who wrote (12734)	9/25/2001 1:49:43 PM
From: Jon Tara	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Nick, ZoneAlarm is a good adjunct to use with any firewall - even if you use egress controls on your firewall (as I do). ZA isn't really a firewall per-se. It hooks into Windows networking at a low level, and is able to determine which applications are attempting to access the Internet, and so is able to control access by specific applications. So, while you might put egress controls on a firewall to only allow HTTP, FTP, and other specific services that you use, there is nothing on the firewall that would prevent, say, a trojan horse program from sending data from your computer over an HTTP port. Zonealarm is a great additional layer of protection, then. I don't see any reason, though, for running general-purpose firewall software if you have a good (read - stateful inspection with both ingress and egress controls) external firewall.