Re: Netgear FR318

From: Larry W4CSC (spaminator@knology.net)
Date: 06/21/02 

From: spaminator@knology.net (Larry W4CSC)
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 17:41:22 GMT

Your friend is correct. But, if you have a properly installed and
kept-up-to-date virus scanner running in the computer, nothing will be
opening up a hole to the outside because the virus scanner will catch
the trojans, worms, etc. before they can open a port in the NAT.

Run AdAware from www.lavasoft.de on a regular basis to make sure you
don't have spyware opening up their own trojan horses, too! AdAware
is free.

On 21 Jun 2002 16:06:21 GMT, Nick Hill <avpx.uvyy@hygentebhc.pb.hx>
wrote:

>I used to be an avid fan of Zonealarm Pro but moved onto a full firewall
>router when my home office increased to 2 pcs.
>
>My question is this, I was told that using a netgear FR318 firewall
>router negated the need for Zonealarm anymore, and based on this advice I
>only use the router now.
>
>My friend has since told me that the router will only protect me from
>incoming attacks, not connections initiated from my computer, whereas
>ZoneAlarm blocks outgoing connection requests as well.
>
>Is this true?, am I as safe as I thought?, or should I be using ZA as
>well? If so, was it worth the £250 for the FR318, or should I have just
>bought a much cheaper NAT-Router and kept Zonealarm instead?
>
>Many thanks in advance,
>
>Nick Hill
>
>--
>ROT13 for true email headers

Larry

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