Re: choosing personal firewall ?

From: dave @ stejonda (@)
Date: 04/19/02 

From: "dave @ stejonda" <usenet_from@stejonda.freeuk.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 09:33:53 +0100

In message <a9md7q$tv1$2@news.shlink.de>, Wolfgang Kueter
<wolfgang@shconnect.de> writes
>Emanuele Blanco wrote:
>
>> I need to install a Personal Firewall
>
>You don't.

I've got two w98se m/c's connected via a BEFSR41 router/switch. I'd been
running Atguard on both m/cs since before I got the router and left it
in place since installing it. I've now substituted Outpost on one m/c
(in view of recent thread here about Atguard getting to be a bit dated).
Outpost has 'attack detection' which Atguard doesn't and it reports
around 6 'connection requests' (Ok, that's not very many :) from various
IP's each 24 hours. Could someone explain why, when I'm running the
router with no port-forwarding, do 'connection requests' get as far as
the Outpost firewall? 

-- 
dave @ stejonda

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