Re: [PCTECH] Need firewall protection,

[David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> The other thing that I'm learning here is that the firewall/router only
> protects against incoming baddies, and does nothing to stop baddies that
> somehow make it onto my PC and "phone home".  I mentioned my paranoia
> yesterday about keyloggers.  David, I guess I'm surprised that you don't run
> a software firewall as well.  What protection do you have against the "phone
> home" baddies?

I don't have any of the 'phone home baddies' ... I keep my virus 
protection current and run a spyware scanner (AdAware by 
http://www.lavasoft.de/) on a regular basis on all my Windows systems 
(mine, my wifes, and my play machine).  My other two machines run Linux 
and I only open the necessary ports.

Inbound email has two layers of virus protection ... mail server and 
workstation.

Additionally, I don't run IE and *NEVER* run applications or open zip 
files from people I don't know.

david