Author: Jon Dart
Date: 09:52:31 05/16/02
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On May 16, 2002 at 10:57:57, Terry McCracken wrote: >On May 16, 2002 at 10:27:05, Jon Dart wrote: > >Next I plan to buy Norton's Personal Firewall, stop most problems before the >need of my virus protection. Personally I don't trust Windows-based firewall s/w. I run a separate box that's only a firewall system (runs OpenBSD, but you could use something else). It has two network cards and refuses all incoming connections from the card that serves the Internet side of things. Almost nothing runs on the firewall box itself the firewall software and SSH (secure replacement for telnet). This is inherently better than running firewall software on the very system you are trying to protect. If you don't want to maintain this kind of system, you can get an equivalent preconfigured box from vendors like Checkpoint, but they're kind of expensive. This is orthogonal to virus protection: its purpose is to stop hackers who wnat to break into your system through the network. --Jon
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