RE: Microsoft urging users to buy Harware Firew alls

[David Vincent <david.vincent () mightyoaks com>]

> > I agree with Microsoft's recommendation for a hardware firewall on all
> > home PCs.  A Linksys NAT router box is selling for only $40 at Amazon as
> > we speak.  Besides protecting against the MSBlaster worm, a hardware
> > firewall blocks those annoying Windows pop-up spam messages which have
> > become so common lately.  A hardware firewall also protects a shared
> > Windows directory from being accessed from the Internet.  

>  buy a $40 hardware router. Software firewalls are not a
>  security solution IMHO."

layred!  LAYRED SECURITY!  compliment your hardware firewall which does not
do application layer filtering with zonealarm, sygate, tiny, kerio, or any
of the others WHICH ARE FREE (well, for home anyways).

<scarcasm>
then charge your friends money to set them up.  :)  pick a few scrabble
letters at random and start adding them after your name on business cards.

MCAL  <-- microsoft certified ass licker
MCPI  <-- microsoft certified patch installer
</scarcasm>

> > My only question is why aren't NAT routers built into all cable and DSL
> > modems.

because this way you can be charged twice.

-d

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