Re: Is my router obsolete?

On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:50:44 -0600, John Smith wrote:

I have a 5 year old Linksys BFSR11 router with the latest firmware.
An IT guy at work says that I should replace it since the bad guys have
found ways to circumvent it's defenses. I doubt it.
Even if I use a software firewall like ZA-Free or Comodo, am I vulnerable?

Any opinions?

Even the latest devices have exploits and can be compromised if you visit
the right page on the net and do stupid things.

You should be running a quality AV solution and be using something like
FireFox or Opera and using a text based email reader.

Firewalls running on your PC are mostly worthless, the windows firewall
being the most worthless of any.

Change your subnet from the default to 192.168.200.1/24, change the
password, etc...


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