Re: The Coalition against Personal Firewalls

Are personal firewalls really useless? If I disable the PFW on my laptop and connect it directly to the Internet, will all those port scans fail, and nothing pernicious ever get into my system?

I doubt it.

If there's something better that "Joe Average" can set up and use reliably without learning the minutia of Internet communications, what is it?
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