Personally, I think it gives her another layer of protection. All of my
remaining customers(I am retired) that have broadband have hardware
firewalls and all the other stuff. I'm not all that familiar with DSL but
don't they furnish Cisco 675, or similar routers, with hardware firewalls?
Jeff
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 1:12 PM
Subject: [H] hardware router
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?
