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Old September 4, 2007, 06:06 PM
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Default Which firewall you use???
which on do you use???

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Old September 4, 2007, 06:17 PM
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ow i use sygate personal firewall and its crap!! CNET gave it a good review. Time to switch, this is a very useful link. nice job.
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Old September 4, 2007, 06:53 PM
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Software firewalls are crap. Invest in a good router or old 486 computer and setup your own firewall and rules.
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Old September 4, 2007, 07:09 PM
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Software firewalls are crap. Invest in a good router or old 486 computer and setup your own firewall and rules.
Yeah, with a router in place, all you are really worried about is "outgoing" traffic, and even the windoze firewall handles that now.
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Old September 4, 2007, 07:18 PM
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Old September 4, 2007, 07:26 PM
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Yeah, with a router in place, all you are really worried about is "outgoing" traffic, and even the windoze firewall handles that now.
What do you have outgoing that you are so worried about? I never understood that.
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Old September 4, 2007, 08:04 PM
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What do you have outgoing that you are so worried about? I never understood that.
I don't have any outgoing, but the issue would be a piece of malware which somehow managed to install itself and was either sending personal information out without your knowledge, or being used as a zombie system.

Without a firewall blocking outgoing most folks would have no idea that their system was compromised.
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Router, windows firewall, good enough:)
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Old September 4, 2007, 09:03 PM
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I currently use a hardware router/firewall made by netgear's prosafe line. I also your CA Antivirus/ Antispyware-Malware
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Excellent link.

I also like this site. It hosts a a whole range of useful leaktest and hole plug-up tools as well as the ultimate HDD recovery software, Spinrite!

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