How many walls

After upgrading to the latest Trend-micro PC-Cillin 2004 anti-virus and internet security product, the internet connection stopped working. Naturally, pc-cillin’s built-in firewall was the culprit (I’m using the Sygate firewall) so it was just a matter of turning the pc-cilling firewall off (which was a bit tricky too). Do we now have too many firewalls in place for the average home user? Let’s see; there’s the MS Windows built-in FW, specific FW packages like Sygate, ZoneAlarm, Norton’s etc, firewalls on routers and ADSL modems, and now even NVidia is putting a hardware FW in their latest nForce3 chipset. Clearly, you only need one firewall (OK, maybe two…) so when things stop working, do we have one too many?

chris on June 27th 2004 in Uncategorized

3 Responses to “How many walls”

  1. Craig responded on 29 Jun 2004 at 12:39 am #

    I would have thought that you would be too busy celebrating Greece’s soccer success instead of playing around with firewall?!?

    My life is a constant one of:

    - Windows Update
    - Norton Live Update
    - Ad-Aware Update
    - Zone-Alarm Update

    Sometimes I get to use my PC as well.

  2. chris responded on 29 Jun 2004 at 3:18 pm #

    Greece has made us proud; no longer their actions bring shame to the family for generations to come. Kapla!

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