Thats rubbish, hardware firewalls can protect incoming, outgoing, specific web sites, ip addresses, mime documents. Do corporations depend of software firewalls to protect their enterprize? Not a chance, its pure hardware.
Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software www.abrohamnealsoftware.com (540) 645 5394 NEW PHONE NUMBER Amateur Radio: K3NC Blog: http://www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/blog/ DXBase bug reports: email to ca...@dxbase.fogbugz.com Abroham Neal forums: http:/www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/community/ On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Lazy Senior <lazysen...@verizon.net>wrote: > Baloney. > > Hardware Firewalls are good. But they protect you only from incoming. > > A good software firewall protects incoming and OUTGOING. You will be > surprised how many programs call "home" after running a software firewall > that does outgoing. Note that most free Microsoft Firewalls only do > incoming protection which is useless if you already have a hardware > Firewall. > > > Unlike many, I multitask while using PSDR. I have used both Norton 2010 and > Comodo Internet Security virus/firewall programs. NEITHER affects PSDR in a > negative way. > No I do NOT sit around and use PSDR and run DPC checker, fretting about my > DPC level. As long as PSDR runs properly I don't care what the DPC level is. > If DPC's jump up a couple of hundred while going to eham.net I really do > not care as it does not affect PSDR operation. > > Use an older pc to protect your home network? Come on be serious. > > Stan K9IUQ > > > > > > > Tim Ellison 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. >> >> 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. >> >> -Tim >> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > _______________________________________________ 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/
