At 08:52 AM 3/18/2006, Stephen Bird typed:
>I've read a review of the Gigabyte GA-K8NSNXP-939... It also has
a built-in firewall.
Are such firewalls effective? I vaguely recall some motherboards
have a sort of
anti-virus component (in the BIOS?) although it may have limited utility.
Generally these are NOT the same. In the old days of yesterday all
one could turn on was the HD's MBR protection but no longer as there
is DEP [data execution prevention] that you can read more about at
Control Panel\System\Properties\Advanced\Performance Settings
button\Data Execution Prevention\How does it work? "This is a
hardware-based technology designed to mark memory locations as
non-executable" & is available only with the AMD64 CPUs.
FWIW this is just another place where AMD kicks the pants off of
Intel. DEP & nVidia's nForce firewall are 2 different kinds of
security precautions. IIRC nVidia had this out before Xp had Sp2 with
it's Security Center.
This particular mombo uses the nVidia nForce 3 chipset which you can
read more about here <http://www.nvidia.com/page/nf3.html>.
NVIDIA Firewall:
A high-performance, network-level firewall, NVIDIA Firewall protects
your PC from intruders by filtering unauthorized traffic. Integrated
into NVIDIA nForce3 MCPs with NVIDIA Gigabit Ethernet, it provides
professional-grade traffic inspection capabilities, advanced
management features--remote access, configuration, and
monitoring--and is easy to use and setup via a user friendly wizard.
When I ordered the above mombo it came with an nVidia CDrom as well
as one from Gigabyte & one can always download the latest bios,
drivers & etc from Gigabyte. Unlike many mombo manufacturer pages one
can find a link to these from the product description page as opposed
to going to the [lack of] Support page that the others provide.
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Ashland, OH, USA 44805
<http://www.wavijo.com>
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