Goodbye software firewall on your desktop PC
Leo J Mauler
webgiant at juno.com
Fri May 21 21:00:56 CDT 2004
Onboard NICs might be easier to swallow, but firewalls' main purpose is
to BLOCK stuff from getting to you. If I didn't set up the firewall, I'm
not entirely comfortable with its filtering.
On Fri, 14 May 2004 08:18:42 -0500 "Brian Kelsay" <BLKELSAY at kcc.usda.gov>
writes:
> All I can say is, WTF? How do you relate those two things?
> Have you been listening to the black helicopter radio shows again?
> If anything, it reminds us of NICs, sound and video chips getting
> added
> to the motherboard. Not always a good thing, but sometimes makes
> sense. Now that most sound chips are equal, it saves headaches of
> adding another card. Not always true with NICs as I hate the
> Realtek
> chips, but for your average PC user they don't notice the quality
> difference.
>
> Brian Kelsay
>
> >>> Leo J Mauler <> 05/14/04 04:29AM >>>
> Wow, an onboard firewall. Kinda reminds me of Intel putting those
> serial
> numbers on their CPUs.
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