| Forum Home | ||||
| Press F1 | ||||
| Thread ID: 95546 | 2008-12-10 01:24:00 | Good, free, No-fuss firewall. | esayolay (13857) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 727274 | 2008-12-10 03:34:00 | I found that the first month or so it nagged me every few minutes, but now it only nags me once a day. Just wait for Comodo to get used to you. If you've got a spare computer around you could use SmoothWall, I have before and it works great. Probably overkill though, unless you have a few servers in your house:D |
Blam (54) | ||
| 727275 | 2008-12-10 03:45:00 | I'm still of the opinion that antivirus will only protect against viruses, some worms and a relatively few trojans. The only surefire way to protect against worms and trojans (which require network access to spread and do damage) is to use a firewall. A router firewall stops things getting in only. Routers always allow outbound connections unless you specifically set it to not allow outbound connections from a specific port. I guess if you are prudent in what you download and understand exactly what it is you are running, then you'll never have any problems with trojans. Trojans, unlike viruses and worms are actual applications and rely on the user the execute them, which makes them hard to detect. I can code up a trojan and my antivirus or antispyware will not find it - only my firewall will detect it when it tries to create an outbound connection. |
utopian201 (6245) | ||
| 1 2 | |||||