Re: Zone Alarm (free addition) and Netscape dialup accelerater.

ArtDent schrieb:

On 30-Aug-2006, "Thomas" <thomas.hertel@xxxxxxx> wrote:

who does really do this in real life?

Me. Am I truly _that_ unique?

In this case I think yes.

If you really want to "protect" your computer in a hands free and
hassle free mode, buy a cheap NAT router. Although not designed as a
security device, it will still do the job much better (and with less
hassle) than a personal firewall.


We do at the office, where we have dsl. But still run pf's because I can
only trust my own 'wisdom',

but a pf is somebody else´s wisdom....or somebody else´s stupidity,
depending on the implementation.

and must even sometimes allow clients to use
my computer (guest account of course) to access the internet (Firefox).
At home I am still on dial-up, do they make any routers that can handle
that?

AFAIK no. At least I don´t know any that support analogue dial-up.
Here in Europe we do have several that support ISDN (mostly as a backup
in case the dsl line dies).

I would still use a pf, but that is just my paranoia over what was
pre-installed.

They are making these programs as intuitive as they can, I don't think
you can say that about OS's. :)

Addressing security issues with intuition is not necessarily a good
idea ;-)


True, but I hope you know I was referring to the 'gui aspect' there and
not the inner workings as such.

Got it :-)

Regards
Thomas

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