Re: What is the best firewall software to use without a router
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Re: What is the best firewall software to use without a router

From: Dom <invalid@invalid.invalid>
Date: Sat Dec 31 2005 - 18:21:52 CET

> I have a wireless B broadband router...

The router should offer protection from the Internet. Is the wireless
secured? If not, that is perfectly acceptable. There is nothing wrong
with sharing your Internet connection with your neighbors, but your own
computers, wired and wireless alike, must be secured to mitigate threats
on the LAN. The XP firewall is acceptable. It's already there and takes
a matter of seconds to enable and it is way better than nothing. As
others have pointed out, do not allow exceptions. If you require
exceptions, then you must secure the wireless network.
Received on Tue Jan 3 03:40:24 2006