Wired Router, Home Use 1

[AussieViper]

Can someone please tell me if my NETGEAR wired router's Firewall good enough to protect my home pc's? Win xp, thank you

 

[cdogg]

There was a recent discussion about this:

thread750-958071

~cdogg
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[Frank4d]

I have three PCs connected to a Netgear RT314 router and use the XP SP2 firewall for good measure. I also use a traffic logger (Linklogger)

http://www.linklogger.com.

I haven't been 0wn3d yet (but it's rather annoying to read the logs and see somebody try to FTP or Telnet to my IP address... not once, but repeatedly).

 

[LloydSev]

If you actually reverse DNS those entries, you'll see a lot coming from sites like AOL, Yahoo, etc.. etc.. As long as you aren't in the DMZ you should be fine.

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CCNA

 

[Frank4d]

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