Re: adsl router with antivirus recomendation

From: NeoSadist (neosad1st_at_charter.net)
Date: 08/10/04 

Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 15:23:03 -0600

Joseph wrote:

> Hi, I own a linksys router and in the latest firmware ther zone alarm
> firewall and antivirus was removed. does anyone know which other
> routers have antivirus and which antivirus, price they have? thanks.

Antivirus belongs on the host machine, where it will do a better job
filtering. Same for the firewall, in my opinion. Do yourself a favor: if
you don't like the features being disabled, call them and demand a refund,
then buy a cheap pentium 1 system and slap Smoothwall 2.0 Linux on it
(which will turn it into a router/firewall), make sure it has two network
cards, etc. There are alternatives. 

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