Re: NIS 2004 or hardware firewall?

Buffalo is dead wrong. Software firewalls have there place. If you have a
need to restrict what applications a user runs to access the internet, need
to restrict their network access via IP/port/protocol or need to protect
your network computers from each other then by all means install and
configure a software firewall or use the Windows Firewall if you do not need
application and outbound control.

For those that do not fall into that category a hardware firewall is just
fine and are for the most part easy to setup and forget. We don't use any
host/software firewalls on any of our eight computers/servers at home and
rely on our Netscreen 5XP [available on Ebay used for around $100] to
protect our network which it does very well. I have not tried NIS myself but
you might want to consider not using it unless you have needs like I
described in the first paragraph. --- Steve

"news.rcn.com" <news.rnc.com> wrote in message
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> Someone has given me a new sealed copy of Norton Internet Security
> (2004) with a validation code on it and I am wondering if there is
> anything
> on it which could be of use to me. Does anyone have a view on this? Or is
> it yet
> another resource hog which, like their other programs, Symantec sell but
> don't dare support ?
>
> Do it's antispam features work (90% of all spam I receive gets sent
> through
> to my deleted items folder by Outlook already)?
>
> Or do it's security and pop-up blocking features do anything which Adaware
> or Spybot don't do? I think that at the moment I am using not one but
> TWO hardware firewalls, one on my Buffalo WiFi router and one on the
> in-series Linksys router supplied by my VOIP service. Buffalo once told
> me that there is no conceivable need for a software firewall if you have a
> hardware one. (But I seem to remember the useful configurability of
> AtGuard which became part of NIS in the old pre-XP days)
>
> (I have also found that the Multi_AV program is extraordinarily useful)
>
>
Received on Mon Nov 21 02:34:31 2005