I am gathering that the router has a firewall - but... I'm not sure what its status is, or if it really protects the computer. I have anti-virus & anti-spyware progs on here. Thanks! cris ----- Original Message ----- From: Judith Tramayne To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 7:40 PM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: how? laptop settings to print Depends on if you have a router or not. My firewall is built into the router thingie and my Wireless DSL owner does not want another one on my computer. That's fine by me -- less hassle :-) But I do have the antivirus, and anti-spyware. I think a firewall like zone alarm or something similar is just so your computer is in stealth mode so it can't be pinged and be recognized. The techs know more and will tell you if I have my head up my tush on this. Judith GOOD NEWS! My son got it to print! He left me a note - "this was printed from your laptop, the network problems were caused by the software firewalls that we all have installed/running on the computers, to acutally use the file sharing and the printer sharing they must be disabled. .... re-enable the firewall in the laptop if you take it out" so - what gives with this? now I have firewalls turned off -that's not so safe, is it? I have Kerio - the free one, on my main computer. The laptop is still running the free norton that came on it - for about another month. He doesn't think it's any big deal to not have the firewalls - I think it is - thoughts? THANKS!!! -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> 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/ -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> 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/