
PS do we have spell checker now?
Somewhere back in this thread or a similar thread SETEC_Astronomy brought up what I feel is a very good point. Years ago when I first got broadband Internet via cable I was running I think Norton for a firewall and it would block countless hits on me. These hits weren't always malicious in nature but there were all these logged inbound hits. Then I added a wired router between me and the world. The hits went to zero. A simple wired router serves as a hardware firewall as SETEC_Astronomy explained in that post. Doesn't have to be fancy just a simple wired router. You don't need a big home network with multiple computers. Just a single home computer with a router between the PC and cable/dsl modem is a big step in a good hardware firewall. A relatively inexpensive investment these days for a good start at a hardware firewall.SETEC_Astronomy wrote:The Windows firewall offers only inbound protection. You can set the Windows firewall to not allow exceptions and it will block certain things like uPnP, Printer Sharing, etc...
As a result of the Windows firewall being enabled by default in XP SP2 interaction-less infection rates of computers running it dropped dramatically.
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