I have a woman who is the only user of her single PC. Like my
sisters, she will use her PC for five years and be lucky to have 200
megs of new data. She will probably install a camera, and some kind
of new printer in that time. She is a basic user... internet,
hotmail, Office. She turns her desktop on to use it and off when she
is finished. She uses it two or three times a week.
I have gone through her Compaq Evo and have cleaned, sanitized, and
fully patched ... not that there was anything there. Auto updates are
enabled.XP firewall is on. I have set up her XP PRO computer to log
her in as a plain user.... so she has no privileges and nothing...
not even administrative shares are shared. I have her setup with
Opera as default browser.
I have installed the full new version of ZoneAlarm Security Suite 7
with default protections( means all), Karparski anti virus, and auto
updates, auto scans, enabled.
She is going to sign up to the cheap level of Verizon DSL which I
recommended to her... she doesn't need any more then that bandwidth.
I don't for see her ever using any kind of network device.
With all this in mind I can't see how see needs to spend money on a
hardware router for the hardware firewall...... am I right?
- [H] hardware router Winterlight
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