Keizer
I'M Your Huckleberry
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join:2003-01-20
| reply to grindy
Re: Is a router enough of a firewall?
said by grindy  :I just may get a software firewall so that I can monitor my outbound traffic from time to time... Good plan. I use a NAT router, as well as Sygate for both inbound, and outbound protection.
Just last night I was once again happy that I had Sygate monitoring outbound connections to the internet. I just purchased the latest copy of PC Utilities, which came with a CD that contained "517 Essential Programs". I downloaded one of the programs, and Avast popped up finding six different virus from the install. Sygate instantly popped up asking permission for a related item from the install to access the internet. Granted, I knew that there was the possibilty of this happening, and was actually hoping it to occur. I actually enjoy catching this stuff to see how/what it does.
I will be imaging back from a clean image file on my external drive to clean the problem up. Still playing with the stuff right now.
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