Yes you get the same safety advantage from being behind a router/firewall, in fact it's slightly safer since your traffic between the router and computer never gets broadcast.
-Adam On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Walter Hamler <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a wireless router but the PC is hardwired to the router. The > router goes between the modem (Cable Modem) and the computer. Does > that still provide that extra level of protection? > > Walt > > On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 1:28 AM, mike wilson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> ---- William Robb <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Walter Hamler" >>> Subject: Re: OT: New Computer Questions >>> >>> >>> > Thanks Mike and others. I will try to learn this new system slowly. So >>> > far it is working pretty good. At least it works! >>> > I made a print from a file that had been corrected and it came out >>> > pretty close to the screen, especially after the print had a few hours >>> > to dry and stabilize. >>> > BTW, are there any recommendations out there for good virus software? >>> > I deleted Norton as soon as I fired up the computer the forst time and >>> > then turned on the Vista Firewall. It still reminds me that I have no >>> > anti-virus software. >>> >>> I've been using AVG (free). It seems OK. >>> You should also have a decent router (hardware firewall). >>> Something that doesn't respond to pings. >> >> A router is even better than that. You can set your PC to be "inert" but >> stuff can still get through to it. The router is just a message passing >> device between your PC and the outside. If it receives a message that it >> has no instructions for (like your PC asks it to fetch a web page or a file) >> it discards it. >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
