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