Re: [Full-disclosure] Personal firewalls.

[Nancy Kramer <nekramer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You are then saying don't buy your firewall bundled with your anti 
virus.  Logically that makes sense.  It seems though that most AV vendors 
sell a firewall with their deluxe packages maybe because they think you 
need one and it gives them a little extra revenue.

I have dailup and no firewall on my desktop and so far so good.  Haven't 
had to rebuild the system yet and I have had it since March 2001.  Came 
close to getting it messed up when I had Norton but was saved by AVG 
Free.  Currently I have my email on a server where they keep the server 
anti virus up to date.  I have not seen a virus in email in months.  I 
still need desktop anti virus but it sure does cut down on the malware that 
shows up on my desktop.

Regards,

Nancy Kramer




At 03:28 PM 1/20/2006, Soderland, Craig wrote:
> And with hardware many users/companies make the same mistake, layering 
> firewalls all of the same vendor/brand. So that in the event of an exploit 
> weakens they're all penetrated.


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