Re: Router - additional firewall

From: CyberCafe (pkbk_at_badger.tds.net)
Date: 06/30/04 

Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 06:10:37 -0500

Barbara OBrien Smith wrote:

> I have AOL and Comcast. I also have a router between the two computers. My SIL
> told me for the upteenth time that I do not need a firewall with the router and
> he seems to get upset that I don't take his advice. I was told by a friend that
> I should have an additional firewall. Now I am reading on AOL that they offer
> McAfee firewall for free and recommend downloading it. So the question is, do
> you need an additional firewall when you use a router.
>
> I got a message today from someone I don't know claiming email came from me
> with a virus attached. I ran Nortons (which is automatically updated and I
> manually update at least twice a week) and came up clean, and then ran
> Housecall and came up with no viruses. I did a trojan scan and came up clean.
> How did he get an email from me then? I changed my password on AOL just in case
> since all those screen names had been stolen.

Boy, there are a lot of possibilities here. It might not be your computer that
passed on your e-mail address. It could have come from someone who has your e-mail
address in their address book. There is also software out there that hackers use
that creates random e-mail addresses. We get a lot of junk e-mail including
messages like you received. You can't trust those kind of messages because it's
probably a bunch of BS.

Don't worry about it and don't respond to it.

Barb

>
> Thanks
> Barbara

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