Broadband ISPs Shouldn't Knock Down Firewalls

Broadband ISPs Shouldn't Knock Down Firewalls
Alex Salkever, Business Week 2001-11-20

Citing finicky configuration problems, the major high-speed providers discourage their use -- a backward and dangerous policy

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Anonymous

These aren't the only two firewalls on the market, either. I have had great success with Black Ice Defender Workstation and Black Ice Server for my Win2k box. Also, a router can include a nice firewall with stateful packet inspection. Unless your hosting anything, just the router by itself is pretty secure.

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