From: Gary Britt 

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OK, that's a good point about the "out" side of the protection. 
Of course that means I need to put comodo on my wife's computer.  

Gary

Antti Kurenniemi wrote:
> First, software firewall is (IMO) mostly useful on a laptop which you might
> need to connect to a network at an unknown location where there might not
> even be a hardware firewall. Seconly, software firewall (a good one that is,
> not the half-assed version in XP SP2) monitors outbound connections as well,
> so if one computer gets an infection, then if that computer has a software
> firewall it might protect you by not letting the trojan/virus/whatever *out*
> of the infected machine.
>
> Antti Kurenniemi
>
> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
> news:4552a6a1$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>> OK, so if you have a software firewall, I thought one of the advantages of
>> having a software firewall was to keep virii and trojans from your side of
>> the router/hardware firewall from getting on your machine.  But in order
>> to have access, in a peer to peer situation at least to the other
>> computers and their files you have to basically allow all TCP/UDP access
>> on basically all ports from 0 to 1100 give or take a few.  If you don't
>> you can't log connect to network drives and other network resources on
>> other machines.  So how is the software firewall protecting you from
>> trojans and virii on other computers on your side of the router/hardware
>> firewall???
>>
>> Confused?
>>
>> Gary
>>
>
>
>


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OK, that's a good point about the "out" side of the
protection.  Of course that means I need to put comodo on my
wife's computer. 
<g>

Gary

Antti Kurenniemi wrote:

  First, software firewall is (IMO) mostly
useful on a laptop
which you might
need to connect to a network at an unknown location where there might not
even be a hardware firewall. Seconly, software firewall (a good one that
is, not the half-assed version in XP SP2) monitors outbound connections as
well, so if one computer gets an infection, then if that computer has a
software firewall it might protect you by not letting the
trojan/virus/whatever *out* of the infected machine.

Antti Kurenniemi

"Gary Britt" <glbNOSPAM{at}gencogDOTcom.com>">mailto:glbNOSPAM{at}gencogDOTcom.com"><glbNOSPAM{at}gencogDOTcom.com>
wrote in message
news:4552a6a
1$1{at}w3.nls.net...
  
  
    OK, so if you have a software firewall, I
thought one of the
advantages of
having a software firewall was to keep virii and trojans from your side of
the router/hardware firewall from getting on your machine.  But in order to
have access, in a peer to peer situation at least to the other computers
and their files you have to basically allow all TCP/UDP access on basically
all ports from 0 to 1100 give or take a few.  If you don't you can't log
connect to network drives and other network resources on other machines. 
So how is the software firewall protecting you from trojans and virii on
other computers on your side of the router/hardware firewall???

Confused?

Gary
    
  
  

  





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