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Posted by =?Utf-8?B?c3Bpa2V2ZXJtaW4=?= on March 23, 2006, 8:30 pm
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Can someone explain to me what firewalls are and what they do?
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Posted by David H. Lipman on March 23, 2006, 8:37 pm
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| Can someone explain to me what firewalls are and what they do?
They are the metal walls between the engine compartment and the passenger
compartment in an
automobile. As the name implies, it is a wall against fire so the passaengers
don't get
burned.
This concept and extrapolated and reinterpreted as a software that keeps a
computer user
from getting burned. The internet is the engine compartment and the computer is
the
passenger compartment.
In the case of software, a FireWall helps to prevent the bad aspects of the
Internet of
gettuing into your computer.
If you are on Broadband Internet such as cable and DSL, then get a Cable/DSL
Router. They
act as simplistic FireWalls and keep the hackerrs and Internet worms from
getting in.
additionally, you can get a Router with a full FireWall implementation built-in.
Best think
about these devices is that no software is needed 9on the PC. The second good
thing about
them is they will allow you tyo share that one Internet connection with upto 253
computers
or Game Boxes (XBox, PlayStation/2, etc.)]
--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
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Posted by Tom [Pepper] Willett on March 23, 2006, 8:42 pm
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> Can someone explain to me what firewalls are and what they do?
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Posted by PA Bear on March 23, 2006, 9:12 pm
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spikevermin wrote:
> Can someone explain to me what firewalls are and what they do?
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Posted by =?Utf-8?B?SmVmZiBT?= on March 24, 2006, 3:20 am
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"spikevermin" wrote:
> Can someone explain to me what firewalls are and what they do?
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