On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Tim Ellison <telli...@itsco.com> wrote:
> I agree 100% and have a two word solution; Hardware Firewalls. > > There are lots of solutions in this area. One easy one is to re-use an > older PC and load one of the multitudes of free open source Linux firewall > packages to protect your *entire* home network. > This is what I use: http://m0n0.ch/wall/ I recommend it highly. You can use an old, beater of a PC to run it. It has its own OS, a version of BSD unix, so you don't need to pay for an operating system to run it. I run mine on a dedicated single-board computer that boots from flash. > Firewalls do not belong on the end user device. They belong at the ingress > point of your network where a common security policy can be implemented and > managed appropriately. > I second that notion. The only reason one needs a firewall on one's computer is because there is stuff running on your computer that shouldn't be. Remember, if a program is not running, it cannot be used to compromise your computer. Windows has a LOT of stuff running that isn't needed. And adding yet another program in order to block access to other programs that aren't needed doesn't strike me as the right solution. -- 73 de Brian, WB6RQN/J79BPL _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
