Re: alternate to firewall?
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Re: alternate to firewall?

From: Volker Birk <bumens@dingens.org>
Date: Mon Sep 26 2005 - 15:42:29 CEST

ashecorven <gharoway@netspace.net.au> wrote:
> I should have explained some more. I have being using tiny firewall for
> quite a while but now i have bought a router and i do believe (please
> correct me if i'm wrong) i don't need the "main" use of the firewall
> anymore.

If your Router is filtering, then you're right.

> But tiny like other firewall products i have used in the past (ZA,
> Sygate) it pops up when a new program starts and asks whether it is
> trustworthy etc. or if the file has changed since the last time is was run
> etc. I find this quite useful and was wondering whether there were any
> programs that did JUST that.

This is only making a show by the "Personal Firewalls". Better forget that.

Yours,
VB.

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Received on Thu Sep 29 20:10:58 2005