Re: sygate personal firewall over cautious

From: DevilsPGD (ihatespam_at_crazyhat.net)
Date: 02/06/05 

Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 06:30:38 -0700

In message <pan.2005.02.06.13.21.55.977586@nowhere.lan> Leythos
<void@nowhere.lan> wrote:

>On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 21:50:42 -0700, DevilsPGD wrote:
>
>> I trojan would typically first have to get through my hardware firewall
>> before it could start to annoy my PC.
>
>Just curious - what hardware firewall are you running? CISCO, SONIC,
>WatchGuard, NetScreen?

m0n0wall at the moment. 

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