These days, using a PC without a firewall installed makes about as much sense as leaving the house without wearing any pants. We’re not talking about the firewall built into your broadband router here ...

Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Professional both incorporate for the first time a base-level firewall facility in the form of Microsoft’s new Internet Connection Firewall (ICF). While Windows ...

Some consider it one of Microsoft's greatest blunders. With the release of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), Microsoft made the conscious decision to turn on the Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) for ...

QUESTION: I just encountered a problem with the Windows XP update site. You get the message that you need a program from Microsoft to scan your machine. So I ...

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It may have been a long time coming, but Microsoft’s newest Service Pack 2 for Windows XP — soon to be released for beta testing — represents several significant changes to the software. Many of the ...

Q. I plan on changing my dialup Internet service provider to a local company but I am concerned about security. Would installing a firewall program, even the free, basic Zone Alarm, disable or ...

We are in the process of designing a strategy for turning on the Windows Desktop Firewall on our admin workstations. At this point we're blocking everything but ICMP, RDP and Dameware, however some of ...

Dr. Chris Hillman, Global AI Lead at Teradata, joins eSpeaks to explore why open data ecosystems are becoming essential for enterprise AI success. In this episode, he breaks down how openness — in ...

While XP SP2 is a huge step forward for Microsoft, there are important caveats. For example, don't expect the new Windows Firewall to prevent keystroke-logging Trojans from stealing your credit card ...

Last week we reported a problem streaming QuickTime content from Mac OS X to Windows XP clients. In some cases, the Windows XP users are able to negotiate to the streaming server, the web client ...