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Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing
- From: Barney Wolff
- Date: Sun Dec 19 18:15:24 2004
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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