Re: Avast or Zone Alarm using proxy server?

From: Gerald Vogt (vogt_at_spamcop.net)
Date: 02/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 17:14:39 +0900

Roger Wilco wrote:
> He's not all wrong - and I wonder why he makes a distinction between
> XP's firewall and another. Anybody serious about security will have a
> dedicated firewall device not some software running on the machine that
> hopes to be protected. He is absolutely correct about not battling
> security with complexity.

Which firewall do you mean with "another"? If you mean a PFW then I
mentioned that most/all PFWs deeply modify Windows, many of these
changes cause often trouble with other software (I am not even talking
about configuration problems that basic PFW users generally solve by
temporarily turning it off.)

In general, I would say you are right. I think a hardware firewall is
preferable to a software one on your computer. But in this thread we
started off with PFWs so this is the mainly focus. A general security
concept does consist of many things. And in particular there is no
security concept for all people. It always depends on the scenario. If
you only have one computer and you want to browse a little and send a
couple of e-mails you would for example not even need a firewall if you
configure the computer properly and be careful.

Gerald

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