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Zone Alarm vs. Mcafee virus firewall

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by davidreskin

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Just upgraded to Win XP (which is great, btw) and therefore needed to go to Mcafee virus scan 6. It has a built-in firewall utility, just wondered if anyone has an opinion whether it is superior to or inferior to Zone Alarm (the most recent non-prozone alarm is what I've been running, around v.2.1)

Many thanks,
DR

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by b_pope

dump Mcafee its configuration is just plain stupid ,use Norton for antivirus & ZONE ALARM for a firewall,leave Norton utilities out also. except with XP there should be a firewall build in based on everything I've read about it.

by davidreskin

many thanks, spyper. I've axed the mcafee firewall and reinstalled zone alarm. as far as built in firewall with xp, I don't know anything about it. If anyone has a comment on that I'd be pleased to know about it.

again, my thanks for taking the time to reply. DR

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