Re: Comodo Firewall

On 15 Oct 2006 10:01:20 +0200, Volker Birk wrote:


BTW: you should not depend on your Virus Scanner for security against
malware. You should have a better concept. The Virus Scanner can help
to filter out incoming already known viruses (like a Spam Filter for
viruses), it will not prevent you from getting arbitrary viruses.

Yours,
VB.

I don't. I don't even have my AV software running in the background. I just
use it to scan files I download and maybe once a month I will do a full
system scan.
.

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