Re: Router - additional firewall

From: 14tonks (mail.2.14tonks_at_recursor.net)
Date: 06/30/04 

Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 09:43:12 -0400

Many people consider it a good idea to have a software firewall on each
computer as well as a hardware firewall on the router. Obviously your SIL
does not agree with this school of thought. If your router firewall
controls outgoing as well as incoming traffic, you never take any of the
computers on your network elsewhere, do not have users on any computer who
engage in dubious practices, do not run a wireless network, and keep all
computers fully patched with all their antivirus and antitrojan programs
updated daily, then you probably do not need the extra security of a
software firewall on each computer as well. If not, I would recommend the
second firewall. 

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"Barbara OBrien Smith" <bsptss@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20040630055256.19468.00000891@mb-m17.aol.com...
> 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.
> Thanks
> Barbara

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