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Hi,
How silly is this;
No antivirus software on an offline machine that only connects to the
internet for a minute or so each day to grab EOD downloads. Anything
else transfered to the machine is scanned in one of the other machines
first.
The connection is via cable thorough a hardware firewall that has
specific rules for only 'port forwarding to the ports/IP addresses
required' This firewall has the following features;
ICSA certified, True Firewall with Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI)
and Intrusion Detection Denial of Service (DoS) attack protection and
VPN pass-through Built-in Print Server and Network Address Translation
(NAT) Routing
I'm loathsome to risk the speeds I'm getting. eg; for a typical EOD
distribution :-
#1 win98 pentium11 233 4.11 minutes (with Norton)
#2 win2000 dell w/station dual P3-866 3.86 minutes (with Norton)
#3 winXP with all the bells & whistles 23 seconds
just don't know whether Norton (even when turned off) slows things
down and /or throws bugs into not so well coded programs - the 99 $
Qu ?
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Best regards,
jon mailto:jonmac@xxxxxxxxxxx
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