Windows XP on the Internet…?

From a Nancy Reagan made the line “Just say ‘No!’” famous, which should be applied here with the following modification: “Without a firewall, just say ‘No!’”.

USA Today recently ran an article bemoaning the time _in minutes_ before a computer, not running a firewall, would become infected. Note the “_in minutes_” part…

“The experiment involved monitoring six ‘honeypot’ computers for two weeks…”
(Definition: A ‘honeypot’ computer is a computer built with the knowledge that it will become infected and connected in a particular way so that it will with the intention of studying the results.)

Article here

My personal viewpoint on the Windows XP firewall can be found here.

Suffice it to say, I highly suggest another firewall such as either the Pro version or even the free firewall from Zonelabs.