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What XP SP2's firewall doesn't do is protect you from any Trojans or spyware that you (or someone else using your computer) might download and install inadvertently. It doesn't monitor out-going traffic at all, other than to check for IP-spoofing...much less block (or at least even ask you about) the bad or the questionable out-going signals. It assumes that any application you have on your HDD is there because you want it there, and therefore has your "permission" to access the Internet. Further, because the Windows Firewall is a "stateful" firewall, it will also assume that any incoming traffic that's a direct response to a Trojan's or spyware's out-going signal is also authorized.So lets hear what the MS XP firewall can't do
redduc900 said:It doesn't monitor out-going traffic at all, other than to check for IP-spoofing...much less block (or at least even ask you about) the bad or the questionable out-going signals.
BIB said:So now that sp2 has been delayed and delayed, it is finally out on the windows update site. Is this a final version that will work with all the programs that they have had problems with? Or is there more updates in the future to fix all of these problems?