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Re: PRIORITY TRANSMISSION
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 17 Sep 2003 23:05:14 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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I just put ZoneAlarm on and it helps a lot when I am dialed in snip
(At home I have a hardware firewall, inside my router, between my
machines and the cable modem)
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In my view you always want both a router and a software firewall behind it.
I just bought a Linksys BEFSR41 at Best Buy for $40 after the mail-in rebate.
With a hub the thing expands to something like 50 DHCP/static IP boxes -- more
than sufficient for the average home (well, and especially if they were all
connecting at the same time via ADSL -- yikes!). The Linksys even has some kind
of firmware integrated support for both ZoneAlarm and PC-Cillin -- but I haven’t
got that together yet. Those integrated firmware versions are actually a couple
of years older than the latest, non-integrated firmware. But you can still do
all of this stuff without the integration anyway. Ah, and one other thing about
the software firewall -- you can block certain users within your home network
from gaining access to your stuff while still having access to their stuff. In
my case this means I block my SO from my 3 personal boxes, but at the same time
I do give her access to what has become our media server. My SO has actually
done things like erased the start button off the taskbar (something I have long
tried to figure out how it was even accomplished in the first place!). So yeah,
she doesn’t have access to my stuff.
What I like about the software firewall behind the hardware router firewall is
the ability to very specifically control traffic out of the machine. I hate it
when applications that have nothing to do with the internet try to access the
internet all the time (Hello, Windows Explorer!). There’s lots of stuff in
there basically acting like Trojan infestations. And that’s also your weakest
area of security: from the inside out!
Ixnay!
-- Hop-Frog
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| (...) Ya, but so can cleaning up after worms and virii! These days, running directly connected to the internet without some sort of firewall between you and the rest of the world is not good, in my view. I was running that way for a while and was (...) (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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