On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:33:29 +0100, Lucas Wader-Magneto wrote:

And I do not get the widespread recommendation not to run a 3rd party
firewall. In XP, Kerio 2.1.5 does not interfere with either the Windows
Firewall or routers and why on earth anyone would *not* want something
alerting one to malware trying to phone home (or without a 3rd party
firewall, *actually* phoning home) I do not understand for one moment.

I got tired of those popups, and configured my firewall in such a way that I
did not see them; then realized that I was being sufficiently permissive as
to not catch malware that way, anyway. So I was negating that very feature
you flog as "protective". Just as well to not have that firewall as to
ignore those popups.

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