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Message-ID: <200601180208.k0I28eeR005650@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Wed Jan 18 02:08:55 2006
From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu)
Subject: PC Firewall Choices 

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:59:52 MST, Nick Hyatt said:
> Given the choice between one of those selections and a standard Linksys
> router / firewall combo, wouldn't it be safer to go with the hardware
> firewall? I find the configuration options to be quite a bit more in-depth,
> and the hardware firewall doesn't get itself as stuck in the system as say,
> ZA does.

Even more important, a hardware firewall can't be compromised as easily
by malware that's on a host behind the firewall.  It's easy for a program
on a PC to tell ZA to look the other way.  It's a little harder for it to
tell a hardware firewall to look the other way.

Unless of course, the firewall implements the UPnP "Pants Down!" RPC.. ;)
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