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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 05:47:28PM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote: > > What's more interesting is the highest infection rate of all is for homes > with laptop/mobile computers. Even when your home broadband modem/gateway > has a firewall, when you take your laptop out of the home you lose > what little protection you had. Then you bring the infection back inside > and infect all your other home computers behind the gateway/firewall. > The crunchy outside, soft-chewy inside rule applies to home computers too. Perhaps, then, one should not be so quick to disparage software-based firewalls, resident on the computer itself. After all, there is really no such thing as a "hardware-based" firewall. bugtraq has plenty of reports of software bugs in firewalls resident on dedicated hardware. "Defense in depth" would suggest using both. -- Barney Wolff http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf I'm available by contract or FT, in the NYC metro area or via the 'Net.
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