Originally posted here by -DaRK-RaiDeR-
XP has its own firewall and is protected
Any security-paranoid people out there, don't trust WinXP's firewall!!

I've heard a lot of stuff about Microsoft and how they might be in hand with the government and might have backdoors in their software and stuff. Maybe its just bull, but I certainly wouldn't take that chance of trusting Microsoft's firewall software. All the security holes they had in the past...you know what I'm getting at

PS: WinXP's firewall is only one-way protection: inbound, which means, any trojans that are on your computer (particulary WinXP'S!!) can still access the internet! Get better protection! There's lots of others, like Zonealarm for the not-so-sharp-with-computers people and TPF for those network admins.