Do I need a firewall?

mishima · 25 Mar 2007 at 00:21

I have just setup a Wireless network at my girlfriends house, on the D-Link router I have enabled WPA and firewall protection in the admin control panel but I'm unsure if this is going to fully protect the system, do I need software firewall also?

Rapid-D · 25 Mar 2007 at 04:29

It really depends. WPA and the firewall in your router usually doesn't help much when it comes to a real attack. If you go to a lot of random sites then its best probably getting something like Kaspersky to be on the safe side.

modo77 · 25 Mar 2007 at 04:50

nat router is all you need. unless your worried about outbound stuff.

TC1 · 25 Mar 2007 at 10:59

I just let Windows Firewall do the business.

masslac · 25 Mar 2007 at 11:06

Windows firewall is fine.

mishima · 25 Mar 2007 at 15:59

Fair play, I'll leave it as it is seems pretty secure I have just performed the various firewall tests that are available online!

masslac · 25 Mar 2007 at 17:44

Yeah, it really is fine.

Who the hell needs outbound protection anyway?! Surely either common sense or decent antivirus sorts this.

And PAYING for a firewall? Don't get me started...

mishima · 25 Mar 2007 at 17:57

haha! It proper gets me annoyed when I have to go round friends to fix their virus infected PC's after the last time I told them to keep definitions up-to-date and scan regular.

Meatball · 25 Mar 2007 at 21:54

mishima said:
haha! It proper gets me annoyed when I have to go round friends to fix their virus infected PC's after the last time I told them to keep definitions up-to-date and scan regular.

One of my friends was like this but she's kept her new computer pristine

She updates spywareblaster and her AV every week and scans Spybot + AV every week