Randy Bell
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join:2002-02-24
Santa Clara, CA
| Re: Closed vs. Filtered said by Maven  :
In my case, since the command netstat -an reports nothing unless running an internet application, I assume that running a firewall would be redundant. I am on WinME with NetBios disabled and not running file sharing.
Maybe sometimes little "redundant" so far as inbound traffic control; but not so far as outbound control. Without a firewall, you have no outbound control, over rogue programs or apps that might try to connect out to the Net. You also have no logging of traffic in/out of your box. This is why I usually recommend a software firewall, even for people who have a NAT router; since the router takes care of inbound traffic but has no effective outbound control. I too have a tight system with NetBEUI substituted for local networking, file sharing and NetBIOS uncoupled {unbound} from TCP/IP, etc. -- but I still use ZA on all boxes in my home network. HTH 
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