question about router/firewall

[islandman4567]

if you have a wired router , does it act as your firewall?

should you still install zone alarm or another firewall?

what are you guys using?

 

[benstt]

if you have a wired router , does it act as your firewall?

should you still install zone alarm or another firewall?

what are you guys using?

Most home routers, designed to connect you to DSL or cable internet, will have a built-in firewall. Check the manual. They vary in quality a fair bit, I think.

If you are using wifi at home, you may want to also install a firewall on the PC, just in case someone tries to tap into your wireless connection, and snoop around your home network behind the router's firewall.

 

[islandman4567]

thanks,

its a wired router.

I don`t trust wifi , especially after reading stuff like this https://terb.cc/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=208618

 

[islandman4567]

I'll probably get zone alarm.

everything I've read about windows firewall says its absolute crap and doesn't stop anythinng.

anyone using this for spyware ?
http://filehippo.com/download_superantispyware/

 

[Larry_Fyne]

Most home routers, designed to connect you to DSL or cable internet, will have a built-in firewall. Check the manual. They vary in quality a fair bit, I think.

If you are using wifi at home, you may want to also install a firewall on the PC, just in case someone tries to tap into your wireless connection, and snoop around your home network behind the router's firewall.

A properly secured/configured WAP should not allow anyone to connect via wireless. Make sure that the WIFI is secure.

 

[thewheelman]

Think of it this way...a router firewall will protect you against incoming threats; a software firewall will protect you against "outgoing" threats.

Outgoing threats could be much worse, as the router's firewall will assume, since you opened the connection going out, that any related return connections are safe and are allowed to pass right through. A lot like going out of the house and leaving the front door wide open.

 

[tboy]

Just one thing: I installed a wired network at home and I had a bitch of a time trying to read files on both pcs. I turned on file sharing on windows firewall, played for hours and hours trying to find out what was wrong...then thought, OH FUCK NORTON ...and sure enough, Norton Protection suite was blocking everything.

You can install windows firewall and using the assigned IP addresses allow only your computers to access files on each of them. Anything else would be blocked.