Re: Firewalls, what would you use? or would recommend?
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Re: Firewalls, what would you use? or would recommend?

From: <benson_james@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed Mar 22 2006 - 18:22:15 CET

thanks mate, will give it a go...

Volker Birk wrote:

> [quoting corrected]
>
> benson_james@yahoo.com wrote:
> > Volker Birk wrote:
> > > benson_james@yahoo.com wrote:
> > > > As with the Windows Firewall, never really used it outside and internal
> > > > network, being an MS product anyway im not 100% confident that it will
> > > > be secure enough!
> > > You should not chose Windows as a server platform if you're not trusting
> > > in Microsoft.
> > Unfortunately, i have no choice in the platform, the dedicated servers
> > we are looking at running soon are only written for Microsoft!
> > Otherwise u think i would be posting this?
>
> Then you're forced to use Windows. I understand. Well, then you will have
> the problems of Windows, regardless what you're doing else.
>
> BTW, the Windows-Firewall seems to be a simple while effective paket
> filter implementation.
>
> Yours,
> VB.
> --
> At first there was the word. And the word was Content-type: text/plain
Received on Mon May 1 01:01:20 2006