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To: Esteban who wrote (23155)	11/2/2001 12:24:00 PM
From: Bob Pittsfield	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110653

Esteban, Win XP Home edition comes with a very rudimentary firewall IMHO and when it runs you cannot see or access your network. I am using a Netgear router with a cable modem. Finally got the da*n network to work ok (with the firewall turned off), after much playing around and not a little swearing. I am very happy with XP so far though. The XP firewall was hacked the first 3 hours it ran. I found a "setup for IE3" on my desktop. Fortunately it was a "friendly" hacker! Sure made me believe the reports that I had read, pointing out it's short comings. I am considering the Norton 2002 firewall for XP partially because there is a $20.00 rebate if you use any other Norton products. Yep, I am cheap! Don't want to get into configuration problems that are way over my head though. In my experience their tech support leaves much to be desired.<gg> Bob