[AccessD] OT: AV and the New Box

On 4 Sep 2006 at 16:09, DWUTKA at marlow.com wrote:

> A software firewall will alert you as to what is coming in and out.  But
> that's about it.  Usually software firewalls are a little easier to
> configure, depending on what you are using.  In the consumer world they are,
> but the industrial routers have capabilities that would make ya drool! ;)

Software firewalls also allow you to control what *applications* can go in 
and out.

For example a standard hardware router will be allowing traffic on Port 
80(HTTP), 25(SMTP mail) and 21(FTP).  It won't control what applications 
use these ports.

A decent software firewall, allows you to deteremine what any specific 
application can do and will tell you if any un-authorised application such 
as a virus or trojan tries to use one of these ports.

I advise people to use both.

-- 
Stuart