Re: [PCTECH] Need firewall protection, but have to LiveUpdate w/ofirewall. What to do?

[Scott Johnson <sjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I run Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird, Spybot S&D, AVG 7.0 Pro, don't open spam, 
and don't click on questionable sites/buttons. I don't worry too much about 
stuff being sent from my PC.  Every once in a great while I will check the 
incoming/outgoing stats on the Linksys router just to see what is there, but I 
don't worry about it too much. If something bad is really determined to send 
from your pc, a sw OR hw firewall is not going to help.  I would rather enjoy my 
surfing experience instead of worrying myself sick about getting something....

My 2 cents.

-- Scott

Bill wrote:
> The major reason for having a S/W FW is to have control over which programs
> or processes are allowed to send data from the PC.
>
> Bill