Re: Most Popular Hardware Firewalls?

Spender wrote:

Maybe you watch too much television. Have you talked to any teenagers
recently? Most are incredibly ignorant. Sure, they can often get around
software solutions such as Net Nanny (often with the help of some
knowledgeable pedophile unfortunately), but a properly setup firewall is
considerably more difficult to circumvent.

No, trivial as always. Just Google Cache is enough to do so, or do you
want to deny access to Google?

Home users usually don't need a firewall at all.
Wrong, those are the ones that need it most.
Totally wrong. Home users don't have a clue about networking so they
can't achieve any security with firewalls.

Speaking for yourself again. Basic firewalling is not difficult at all.

Yeah, it's breaking everything. And pretty soon the users allows this or
that, or if something doesn't work he disables it temporarily. Pretty
unavoidable with such crappy default settings. And as long as IE, OE, MS
Office, MSN Messenger, mIRC or other crap is allowed, you'll get the
malware anyway.

Actually yes, a really good firewall can help by blocking content.

So, blocking all JavaScript, CSS, all Links containing "ftp:", Objects
and (I)Frames?

But have you ever considered a simple popup blocker?

Do I need one? My webbrowser has a default deny policy on all JavaScript
and NSPlugin actions invoking opening a new window with a configuration
notice. I wouldn't even call it blocking, it's just a must-have feature.
.

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