Re: A good router

From: BW~Merlin (s4076794_at_student.uq.edu.au)
Date: 05/29/04 

Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 22:38:25 +1000

Duane Arnold wrote:
> BW~Merlin <s4076794@student.uq.edu.au> wrote in news:c99mq6$3i3$1
> @bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au:

>>I don't know much about routers and
>>know a little about home security (like windows is bad and when my new
>>pc comes Linux's goes on it)
>
>
> You know nothing about security making that statement as a Windows NT
> based O/S such as Win NT 4.0, 2K, XP, or 2K3 can be secured if one knows
> what he or she is doing to secure the O/S. I have no problems with
> security of any Windows NT based O/S machine on my network. However,
> there is some learning one must face in the area and the link is a push.
>

Ok maybe I should have said I know a bit more about security then I said
above but not a lot (depending on what you think is a lot and what is
not) As for the comment about windows being bad well its just I’m feed
up with windows as I have spent the past month cleaning people's
computers of sasser, welcha and blaster worms and trying to explain the
concept of windows updates to them. I currently run sygate 5.5 free
version with NAV 2003 with F-Prot for dos as on demand scanner. I also
use spybot S&D, spywareblaster, IE-SPYAD, HOST files and when I get the
money ill be getting TDS 4 and Wormgard again (free trial ran out but
made me want to get them to add more layers of defence) as well I use
myself (you are the most important security tool you have). I am
looking for the router to provide additional protection to my home
network. Most of the above security products stop spyware and related
junk but I’m looking for some more protection to stop unwanted traffic
(I keep getting port scanned and it may only be a matter of time before
one of those scans turns a bit more nasty) and intrusions. I also have
visited blackvipers website and closed down unneeded processes (on my XP
computer) such as remote assistance and so on. I think the router is
the next step in securing my computers but as I said I don’t know much
about them and I wont be able to administrate it all the time so I need
something that can be plugged in, configured briefly and left to the
next time I can get back to it and tightened things up a bit more.

BW~Merlin

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