Firewalls and Modems--No Need?

[Guest W. Watson]

I went into a store to buy firewall for a P3 PC with a modem that I'm

working on for a neighbor. I knew several people were pretty savvy with PCs,

so asked them for a suggestion. The first one was why bother? Who really is

going to try to invade a PC that is connected by a firewall? They may have a

good point. Comments?

 

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Wayne Watson (Nevada City, CA)

 

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[Guest Phisherman]

Re: Firewalls and Modems--No Need?

 

On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 16:03:48 GMT, "W. Watson"

<wolf_tracks@invalid.com> wrote:

>I went into a store to buy firewall for a P3 PC with a modem that I'm

>working on for a neighbor. I knew several people were pretty savvy with PCs,

>so asked them for a suggestion. The first one was why bother? Who really is

>going to try to invade a PC that is connected by a firewall? They may have a

>good point. Comments?

 

A firewall is a very good idea with either dialup or broadband. To

compare go to http://www.grc.com and run Shields Up! with and without your

firewall to see the difference. You don't need to buy one, there are

a few freeware firewalls that do the job well.

[Guest DL]

Re: Firewalls and Modems--No Need?

 

You say you were going to buy a firewall, software or hardware?

Then say 'that is connected by a firewall' that all makes little sense.

But then perhaps you mean a pc that is connected to a NAT enabled reuter,

which is not quite the same as a firewall.

 

Its not quite so much down to being invaded, but the user who installs a

trojan, which can then reach out.

In any case a software firewall solution can be freely downloaded. ZoneAlarm

being one such.

 

"W. Watson" <wolf_tracks@invalid.com> wrote in message

news:EpYzi.47619$Um6.14174@newssvr12.news.prodigy.net...

>I went into a store to buy firewall for a P3 PC with a modem that I'm

>working on for a neighbor. I knew several people were pretty savvy with

>PCs, so asked them for a suggestion. The first one was why bother? Who

>really is going to try to invade a PC that is connected by a firewall? They

>may have a good point. Comments?

>

> --

> Wayne Watson (Nevada City, CA)

>

> Web Page: <speckledwithStars.net>

[Guest Quaestor]

Re: Firewalls and Modems--No Need?

 

W. Watson wrote:

> I went into a store to buy firewall for a P3 PC with a modem that I'm

> working on for a neighbor. I knew several people were pretty savvy

> with PCs, so asked them for a suggestion. The first one was why

> bother? Who really is going to try to invade a PC that is connected by

> a firewall? They may have a good point. Comments?

 

 

Unpretected hex is suicide. I don't care if it's running DOS 3.0, you

run a hardware firewall or you are taking risks.

 

OK, the risks may be very small, depending on the OS. I ran 98se for

years without, did just fine, and only had to have one when I switched

to w2k (in which case it is absolutely mandatory).

 

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