Re: @Home cable service
From: 540iguy (540iguy@bmw.yeh)Date: 09/19/02
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From: 540iguy <540iguy@bmw.yeh> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 17:16:52 -0400
Although I don't have the background to comment on the virtues of a
router, I've had good success (and I'm no rocket scientist), with just
installing a local network and running Sygate internet sharing software:
http://soho.sygate.com/products/default.htm
Then I use ZA for protection.
Just my 2 cents.
Nathaniel Hekman wrote:
> I'd suggest a hardware solution, like a LinkSys router.
>
> http://www.linksys.com/products/group.asp?grid=23
>
> The advantages of hardware, in my opinion:
> - no software to install, it's really plug-and-play for any simple home
> system;
> - it also gives you a home network, so you can share files & printers
> between computers at home, and share your Internet connection;
> - if you ever get more than one computer at home it protects all of
> them, rather than having to buy licenses and install software on every
> computer.
>
> I experimented with Zone Alarm at work, where I do some IT. A software
> firewall does not seem secure to me at all, for a couple of reasons:
> - ZA would pop up a message whenever someone on the network tried to
> connect to me, and similarly when software on my computer tried to connect
> out, and it would ask if I wanted to allow or disallow it. As an
> experienced IT person I found it often difficult to know what kind of
> connection this was in order to decide whether to allow or disallow. For a
> casual user it would be nearly impossible. It would be very easy for me to
> unknowingly open a gaping hole in my network.
> - Because a software firewall is just another programme running on your
> computer, it is susceptible to all the bugs, viruses, worms and trojan
> horses we hear about every day. Sure, a hardware solution is really just
> software running in its own box so it could be targeted by a virus as well,
> but fewer programmers have the requisite experience or interest.
>
> M2CW
>
>
> Nate
>
>
> "John C." <john92us@midco.net> wrote in message
> news:uoin1mpfqv522@corp.supernews.com...
>
>>I'm new to all this firewall stuff but I know I'm vulnerable.
>>Any suggestions for software and/or settings? (win 98se)
>>Thanks in advance
>>
>>
>
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