[MLB-WIRELESS] Firewall rule?

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Is that the sound of a can of worms being opened. :)



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From: melbwireless-bounces at wireless.org.au
[mailto:melbwireless-bounces at wireless.org.au]On Behalf Of Jesse McNelis
Sent: Tuesday, 15 August 2006 7:05 PM
Cc: Melbourne Wireless
Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Firewall rule?


On 8/15/06, Mark Aitken <nodegxt at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> Hi Ppl,
>
> as most of us do, I run a firewall on all computers connected to my
> network.  I have recently installed Tiny Personal Firewall on my Win2K
> server
> box that is online on the net 24/7.  This does mainly torrent xfers.


I still don't really get the large mainstream use of personal software
firewalls. They really don't make much sense, waste resources and
create another process running with adminstrator privileges that could
be expolitable. It seems simpler to disabled the network services that
you aren't using.

Firewalls are for dividing networks up and that's what they should be
used for. But It's your network so you should do what you think is
best.

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