-=PCTechTalk=- Re: firewall - router

  • From: "Don" <dsw32952@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:10:01 -0500

Chris,

Put your firewall back on.  Neither the router nor the XP firewall will stop 
undesirable OUTbound traffic.

Don

Do YOU want a gmail account invitation?  Include your email address in the 
body of a private message to dsw32952@xxxxxxxxx




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cris" <cris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 7:53 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- firewall - router


> My son and his friend made our Linksey's wireless router
> into a wired and wireless system. (The one computer is still
> wireless, but they wired the house).
> They had me uninstall my firewall. They said that the
> firewall in the router was better than any other firewall
> and I didn't need one on my computer. I did re-activate my
> windows firewall after that. Is this accurate information?
> or should I put a firewall back on here?
>
> thx!
> cris
>
> 
To unsub or change your email settings:
//www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk

To access our Archives:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/
//www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/

For more info:
//www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk

Other related posts: