Re: firewall on budget ?

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I did not mean to imply that firewalls and routers will stop viruses and
malware. That is all down to what the PC user downloads or opens. What it
can do, however, is flag an alert if a trojan is trying to call home. This
does not work for all trojans, but as I stated, some of the tests I have run
test the firewall for this type of outgoing threat. You have to remember
that you could have received a virus before the anti virus was updated to
combat it.

Martin

"sgopus" <sgopus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Firewalls do not stop virus, nor worms, nor malware.
as an example I have both a firewall router and ZA software fire wall, and
still managed to get a download trojan trying to install itself on my pc
over
this last weekend, fortunatly Kaspersky caught the trojan (twice) and
deleted
it.
so be safe and don't put all your eggs in one basket. Multiple avenues for
protection are better

"Martin C" wrote:

Unless I have missed it, what no one has yet mentioned is that a software
Firewall (I actually use ZA Free behind a NAT router) is that it is
mainly
there to protect against outbound problems from malware and trojans.
Looking
at my logs, I see nothing inbound as the router has handled all of that.

I have used outbound protection tests (obtained from trusted sites) to
confirm that ZA is doing its job. It has blocked all the tests I have run
so
far.

One problem with using the firewall is that sometimes I will get alerts
in
the log which turn out to be just the PC talking to itself, but believing
it
is networked. I am not at my home PC at the moment, so I cannot remember
examples.

I am not sure how good the Windows firewall is at outgoing protection, so
cannot comment.

If you want more information, post at comp.security.firewalls, but beware
as
there are a lot of stroppy individuals that know their stuff, but are
arrogant and abusive with the help they give.

Martin

"Ari" <arisilverstein@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:58:53 -0700, Beladi Nasralla wrote:

I have a PC built for me, and I installed Windows XP SP2 on it. I
presume I need to put a firewall and antivirus on it to ward off worms
and viruses.

Kerio 2.15 free and works great.





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