I have just installed Linsys WRT54GS router and connected my 2 computers to it. Desktop is cabled and laptop is wireless. Both of them behind the NAT. There is also some kind of firewall on the router, but not many options are available.
Anyway, I have got the following question.
Do I need software Firewall anymore? Something like Zone alarm pro or Sygate Pro?
What do you think?
Some ppl tell me that since I am behind the NAT I am safe.
But I do forward ports for some programs. I believe that these ports can be used by any hacker to get into my PC, because the router is not as smart as software firewall, he doesn't open the ports for some particular program and only while this program is running. I thinks it opens the ports for all the time and would allow communication via these ports to any program, even if it is not the one I allowed to use the ports.
A.
Anyway, I have got the following question.
Do I need software Firewall anymore? Something like Zone alarm pro or Sygate Pro?
What do you think?
Some ppl tell me that since I am behind the NAT I am safe.
But I do forward ports for some programs. I believe that these ports can be used by any hacker to get into my PC, because the router is not as smart as software firewall, he doesn't open the ports for some particular program and only while this program is running. I thinks it opens the ports for all the time and would allow communication via these ports to any program, even if it is not the one I allowed to use the ports.
A.