Goodbye software firewall on your desktop PC
lerninlinux at comcast.net
lerninlinux at comcast.net
Sun May 23 03:28:29 CDT 2004
While I agree that you should have one you set up, I think that there is nothing wrong with this.
For us it could just add another firewall (hardware nat,like current router boxes), while for the
newby/ Typical Windows users it might help. I would like to see the bios, because besides being
able to turn it on and off, I would think they would include other options. Just want to see what!
> Onboard NICs might be easier to swallow, but firewalls' main purpose is
> to BLOCK stuff from getting to you. If I didn't set up the firewall, I'm
> not entirely comfortable with its filtering.
>
> On Fri, 14 May 2004 08:18:42 -0500 "Brian Kelsay" <BLKELSAY at kcc.usda.gov>
> writes:
> > All I can say is, WTF? How do you relate those two things?
> > Have you been listening to the black helicopter radio shows again?
> > If anything, it reminds us of NICs, sound and video chips getting
> > added
> > to the motherboard. Not always a good thing, but sometimes makes
> > sense. Now that most sound chips are equal, it saves headaches of
> > adding another card. Not always true with NICs as I hate the
> > Realtek
> > chips, but for your average PC user they don't notice the quality
> > difference.
> >
> > Brian Kelsay
> >
> > >>> Leo J Mauler <> 05/14/04 04:29AM >>>
> > Wow, an onboard firewall. Kinda reminds me of Intel putting those
> > serial
> > numbers on their CPUs.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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