Originally posted here by ZomBieMann77
Just a quick note. the default firewall in windows Xp should never be enabled. Its a waste of memory. Just download zonealarm or any of the other firewalls floating around out there and leave the xp firewall alone.
I was under the impression that ZA uses the XP firewall proggie to block incoming packets, even if'n you didn't enable the XP firewall!! I don't remember where I got the information, but I thought I had read that ZA just adds blockage of imcoming packets. . .could be wrong, though.