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In Reply to: firewall: hardware- or software-based? posted by eaf on October 26, 2004 at 14:09:25:
Your question is a little too general when it comes to what I believe is the intent on asking the question. I think you want to know which would be better to protect your personal pc from the “evil†that lurks out on the Internet. The short answer is depending on what your needs of the pc are either one is better than none at all. A dedicated “hardware†solution will offload the performance hit you’ll take if you were to run a “software†solution from your machine. In other words if you’re doing cpu intensive things then your pc will perform better if it doesn’t have to perform firewall duties also. If you are a general user who just “surfs the netâ€, opens occasional email or downloads some music from time to time then the best solution is a combination of the two. The firewall in your router is designed to protect a network, whereas software based solution running on your machine is designed (primarily) to protect an individual pc. But remember its all software. The router is running code too. You have to determine if the performance hit you’ll take for running a personal firewall impedes the activities you need to accomplish on your personal machine. If not then run both. The best advice in being secure is to be smart in your computing. Watch where you go and what you do when you get there and keep your AV current. Hopes this helps a little. Good luck.
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