Re: Symantec corporate AV & Firewall co-existence problems? -- PCTECH

My household is made up of adults.  Not that kids can't surf safely, but
we recognize the potential consequences of our actions.  Anyway, age
aside the crux is that we know better than to go to suspicious sites,
read spam & follow the links, download software from unknown sites
without some 3rd party recommendation/verification, etc.  I use Firefox,
don't load Flash, and block popups.  My wife uses IE but she rarely goes
to more than about a half dozen regular sites like Yahoo for email.  Our
OSes, web-related apps, and MS Office are kept current WRT security
updates.

There's probably more than that but that's what comes to mind off the
top of my head.

John A. Jones, CISSP
Americas Information Security Officer
Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc.
V: +1-630-455-2787 F: +1-312-601-1782
john.jones@xxxxxxxxxx

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On Behalf Of Tom Liotta
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 6:13 PM
To: pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Symantec corporate AV & Firewall co-existence
problems?

John:

Can you elaborate on your comment? "Safe surfing" stands on its own
merit, but I'm unclear on its significant relationship to a firewall in
this context. You do use a firewall; so, this is more academic. But it
feels like you had something specific to infer.

Thanks.

Tom Liotta

pctech-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:


   2. Re: Symantec corporate AV & Firewall co-existence problems?
      (Jones, John (US))

Of all people, I guess I'm surprised that you don't have a firewall at

home.  Are you using a router firewall and not any software firewall?


Router firewall.  Because I practice relatively safe surfing, I'm not 
too worried about it.  Ditto for my wife for the most part.  We also 
have very little in the way of valuable data on our PCs; my browser 
cache is probably the most 'dangerous' thing there.


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