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>Actually, the best protection is to use both hardware AND software
>firewalls.
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>The hardware firewall provides a first level of protection by providing NAT
>isolation of your internal IP addresses.
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>The software firewall reinforces this and adds protection from outgoing
>viral junk and Trojan privacy theft.
Unless of course you have other things to prevent virii and trojans from
being installed in the first place.
Having NO email software on your computer helps. I either telnet
to a unix shell for mail (which is text based and immune to email
virii and trojans), or access mail through a webmail interface. No
mail is ever downloaded to my PC, just displayed. All mail resides
on the mail server, not my computer. When displaying on the web, I
have Proxomitron to prevent execution of nasty active content, web
bugs, cookies, and the like.
I routinely run spyware utilities. Nothing has ever been found
beyond some tracking cookies.
With that set-up, I have no need for the additional burden of a software
firewall (which are easy for a smart hacker to defeat, anyway).
-Alex
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