for all people installing SP2...

[flexy]

like Kerio, ZA, Sygate ? You ditch them because you think the Sp2 firewall is better ?

 

[Mem]

I`ve disabled my SP2 firewall,my Kerio personal firewall is superior in every sense and has no problems with my online gaming,can`t say the same for SP2 firewall .

 

[slipONflange]

I stuck with Kerio.

 

[JackBurton]

Disabled SP2 firewall and kepy my Norton IS.

 

[jadinolf]

SP2 found Zone Alarm Pro and I am using it.

 

[RVN]

ZA 5.1.011

 

[Wigwam]

Originally posted by: RVN
ZA 5.1.011

does this still lock drives and prevent chkdsk and diskeeper boottime from running?

 

[RVN]

Whaddaya mean by "lock drives"?

I use the built-in defragger for my 10 GB C drive (os and programs) and O&O Pro for my data drives. Can't speak for diskeeper other than the native XP one.

Currently, all my sh*t is running just fine.

 

[RVN]

Also, no problem with checkdisk. Are you having a problem and thinking it's ZA 5.1.011?

 

[Wigwam]

there was a problem with the early loading of ZA 5 which locked vlolumes and so chkdsk with the /f parameter and DIskeeper 7 [which offers a boot time defrag option] could not run.

 

[RVN]

The boot time defrag in O&O runs okay with this version of ZA under SP2 ...and SysInternals page defrag runs /f okay too.

How come your signature file doesn't run?

 

[Wigwam]

just clicked on my sig and it ran fine

 

[VirtualLarry]

Curious, for those of you who replied that they installed SP2, and are running Kerio, but disabled SP2's built-in firewall - are you running Kerio 2.x or 4.x? And are you aware of the issues with (at least in 2.x) boot-up and shut-down loss of protection with Kerio? The biggest advantage that I've seen, with SP2's built-in firewall, is that it is active throughout the bootup/shutdown process, and thus cannot be easily breached, unlike most 3rd-party ones. Based on that, and my testing with Kerio 4.0.15 on SP2 rc1, I'm wondering why you aren't running *both* firewalls at once? I didn't notice any problem conflicts between the built-in one and Kerio. (Not to mention the subnet anti-spoofing protection built into XP SP2's firewall, that Kerio 2.x lacks entirely.)

 

[dc5]

no firewall installed or enabled. only firewall i have is a hardware one. :\ i just take caution when installing new softwares.

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: dc5
no firewall installed or enabled. only firewall i have is a hardware one. :\ i just take caution when installing new softwares.

by hardware, do you mean a basic home router, or a real firewall?

 

[EvanB]

I use a harware firewall, Netgear Prosafe VPN firewall. But I do like SP2 firewall. And Zonealarm is terrible. I despise it.