Re: Firewall Necessity
From: Joshua Sparks (nacs_at_nb.sympatico.ca)
Date: 02/28/04
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Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 04:39:53 GMT
I think that one point should be made here. Although XP does come with a
firewall for Network Connections, I also use another firewall for added
protection. Is this doubling up really necessary? I'm perfectly willing to
give up a bit of bandwidth speed for the assurance of knowing that my
machine is protected.
"Spiderman" <spiderman@spiderman.com> wrote in message
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> I have a wireless local network connecting 2 PC's and sharing a broadband
> connection. The host is running Windows XP...the other PC is running
Windows
> ME. When I turn on the XP built-in firewall on the broadband NIC, the
other
> PC loses it's shared Internet connection. Without the firewall on the NIC,
> the internet connection is shared just fine. My real question is: is a
> firewall REALLY necessary? I already run anti-virus, what REAL protection
> does a firewall provide? I never used one prior to XP...and never had a
> problem, besides it slows down the connection. Just curious what the
experts
> think...
>
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