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At work we have been having a conversation about the virtues and necessity of firewalls.
It caused me to think again about my recent (and still on-going) dramas about my home network's connectivity issues.
A chap at work is quite emphatic that f/w are unnecessary. If you have a router then you are ok provided that you scan all incoming e-mails. Call him the purist. At the other extreme are those who have a f/w on all computers and have the f/w turned on on all routers, switches etc: Call them the panic merchants. Then there are those like me who want security at the lowest cost. :grin:
Who is most correct? Do we need a f/w at home (for example) if we have a DSL router? Presumably an anti-virus package is essential.
But is e-mail the only way that viruses, tojans etc: can enter the network or are there other ways?
It caused me to think again about my recent (and still on-going) dramas about my home network's connectivity issues.
A chap at work is quite emphatic that f/w are unnecessary. If you have a router then you are ok provided that you scan all incoming e-mails. Call him the purist. At the other extreme are those who have a f/w on all computers and have the f/w turned on on all routers, switches etc: Call them the panic merchants. Then there are those like me who want security at the lowest cost. :grin:
Who is most correct? Do we need a f/w at home (for example) if we have a DSL router? Presumably an anti-virus package is essential.
But is e-mail the only way that viruses, tojans etc: can enter the network or are there other ways?