Never Hacked or Infected--Yet (Was: Re: End of life for FC12?)

Michael Miles mmamiga6 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 11 18:29:10 UTC 2010


Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 11/11/2010 09:16 AM, Michael Miles wrote:
>    
>> I have been thinking of completely disabling my firewall since I do not
>> have any computers connected to this computer.
>>
>> Is this a safe practice or am I setting myself up for intrusion?
>>      
> Why would you want to?  What benefit do you expect?
>    
That is what I am asking. Do I need a double firewall or would the 
router be enough.? The benefit that I can see would be the computer not 
having to actually do firewall duties and being a little bit quicker 
because of it. Especially with torrents.

I don't really know!!!





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