Re: Router Security

From: Windows XP Newsgroup (someone_at_microsoft.com)
Date: 06/19/04


Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 17:56:15 +0100

Wow. Great information. You folks should get paid for this stuff. Thankyou
very much.

Matt

"Windows XP Newsgroup" <someone@microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:u0fEh$gVEHA.3596@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> I have two PCs connected to the internet via a router. Before using the
> router I used to get regualr alarms from the Norton firewall of various
> trojan attempts etc. Since using the router I don't think I've had one
> alarm. I just wondered if this could be anything to do with using the
> router. Do they provide some sort of added protection to stop these thigs
> getting to your PC. Sorry If this is a silly question as I'm very new to
> this sort of thing. The router is a LINKSYS type.
>
>



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