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Old 07-15-2005, 06:23 PM
David H. Lipman
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Default Re: Security overkill?

From: "Robsten" <finns.pa.hemsidan@min.com>


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| I don.t know. I know that Matthew Strebe recommend that you should
| close every port that you don.t use, "Firewalls 24seven" ISBN
| 91-636-0736-0. If you find a service who don.t work, open the port that
| service/program use, no problem! ;-)
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| http://w1.853.comhem.se/~u85329080/
| http://web.comhem.se/~u85329080/indexB.htm
| http://web.comhem.se/~u85329080/Freeware.htm
| And I don.t play golf
|

SHO Routers such as the OP's Linksys are at best simplistic FireWalls and are NOT true
FireWalls with such extended capabilities. The fields for entering such data are quite
limited. It is not a like a FireWall the uses an embedded interpreted OS that allows a
rules setting.

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Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm



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