I use Norton Internet Security 2004. The suite comes with Norton Personal
Firewall, Norton Intruder Detection, Ad Blocking, Spam Filter, Parental
Control and Privacy Manager, as well as Norton Anti-virus. I found it on-line
for $25 including shipping a few months ago. That is just a CD, the manual is
on the CD.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2004 3:57 PM
Subject: Re: speech and the internet
Steve:
Thanks for this info. It is somewhat comforting, and very informative.
I don't do a lot on the internet, other than e-mail and some occasional web
surfing and downloading, but I just want to be sure i am protected
reasonably well here.
What is the software firewall you use?
Just curious.
Thanks, and best 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2004 2:32 PM
Subject: Re: speech and the internet
> Tom,
>
> You don't necessarily need a firewall, as your Linksys router probably has
a
> hardware firewall built in.
>
> Having said that, I do have a software firewall in addition to the
firewall in
> my DLink router. I do this because I don't trust the router to keep ports
> closed when not in use.
>
> AdAware is not a firewall program. AdAware is a program which scans for,
and
> hopefully, removes spyware which already exists on your computer. There
are
> also spyguard programs which function differently than AdAware in that
their
> function is to prevent you from getting spyware in the first place. In
other
> words, they are proactive.
>
> HTH,
> Steve, K8SP
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