Re: NAT Router

On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 02:50:28 GMT, "Mr. Arnold" <"Mr.
Arnold"@Arnold.COM> wrote:

Thanks to all who replied it is appreciated.

A special thank you to "Mr. Arnold" for his reply and great links.

Its off to the drawing board.

Thanks again.

Tony wrote:
I have only one desktop computer that is used here.

I have looked at several software personal firewalls. They all for the
most part seem to be a joke.

Would I just be better off connecting this computer to a "NAT Router"
for its firewall protection.

Well, in a way, because a NAT router, unlike a personal FW is not
running with the O/S. The PFW can be attacked just like the O/S can be
attacked.

http://www.wallwatcher.com/


Thanks for any and all help you can offer.


You may want to spend a little more money and get a FW router that meets
the specs in the link for *What does a FW do?*

http://www.vicomsoft.com/knowledge/reference/firewalls1.html

I use a PFW on my laptop when it's not connected to my network. I have
no PFW(s) running on the any MS machine or the Linux FW active on the
Linux machine, because I have a FW appliance that will meet those specs.

They have FW router's like Netgear's FR314 that's ICSA certified ,and
others vendors do too, that will meet those specs in the link above.

Look at it this way, you pay for a PFW and then you have to keep
renewing it, possibly paying for the renew.

It all washes out in the long run on money spent if you know what I mean.

http://labmice.techtarget.com/articles/winxpsecuritychecklist.htm

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