Gatesy (family of Bill?), > From: Gatesy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 21:22:04 +1000 > > i dont know if this makles sense but anyway....
Makes sense to me at least... > will the router be a good firewall so i can take zonealarm pro off > my main computer to hopefully speed it up abit??? If your (LEAF?) router has been configured as a firewall it will, indeed, be quite a good firewall (truism!). In that sense, you don't need zone-alarm to protect you any more. However, although I don't have any experience with zone-alarm, I do believe that it also monitors *outgoing* connection attempts and maintains a map of program - destination - permission triplets. In this way zone-alarm will also give you a degree of protection against malicious 'Mal-ware' programs that 'phone home' with information about you. This is something that it is impossible to do from a firewall (it only knows of hosts - and can't see which program is initiating the connect attempt). Does zone-alarm really slow you though put that much? I would expect all that much, to be honest (based on theoretical arguments). Do some test downloads from a site 'near' you and see how big the difference is between 'with' and 'without'. If the 'cost of zone-alarm is not all that big, I would suggest keeping it in place - a 'belt *and* braces' approach is alway good in security measures. > thanks Greetings -- Mark Plowman, ------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
