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Actually, the best protection is to use both hardware AND software
firewalls.
The hardware firewall provides a first level of protection by providing NAT
isolation of your internal IP addresses.
The software firewall reinforces this and adds protection from outgoing
viral junk and Trojan privacy theft.
Allan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: unicorn@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:unicorn@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alex
> Matulich
> Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 12:40 PM
> To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [OT] which firewall
>
> >Is there anyone willing to advise a good firewall?
> >Links to sites for updated pc security info are welcome as well.
>
> The best firewall is an external hardware kind. I use a NAT firewall
> router, but I know others use a dedicated box running linux. The
> firewall that comes with linux is pretty good.
>
> For Windoze software firewalls, it's hard to beat ZoneAlarm.
>
> Much as I dislike Steve Gibson's alarmist hype, he does have a nice list
> of firewall software along with ones that fail certain tests at
> http://www.grc.com/lt/scoreboard.htm
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> ,|___ Alex Matulich -- alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> // +__> Director of Research and Development
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