Tycoonbrad
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- Mar 5, 2004
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My father got a bad case of the Netsky virus. He something like 30,000 files infected. He had no idea his computer was being used as a peer-to-peer zombie. Thankfully, his ISP shut him down and told him he had a virus. I checked the machine with Stinger and got rid of all the viruses/trojans on his machine. He was under the assumption, as was I, that a hardware router was enough protection to stop torjans/viruses. I guess we were both wrong.
Can someone explain why you have to have a hardware router w/firewall AND a software firewall? His hardware router is an SMC with an SPI filtering firewall. Is it because the outbound protection is better with the software firewall?
Can someone explain why you have to have a hardware router w/firewall AND a software firewall? His hardware router is an SMC with an SPI filtering firewall. Is it because the outbound protection is better with the software firewall?