Netgear FVS318

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Is there a risk with firewalls?

Dear Group,I am asking a question regarding the time interval after startup of a PC andthetime the firewall becomes effective.The details are briefly as follows:On my PC the startup contains the following sequence: first the DSL...

Firewall for Laptop

I have become tired of the constant hogging Zonealarm free is doing tomy laptop. Every 10 (or less) seconds the hard drive and CPU usagepeak as zlclient or vsmon do their thing. I have been following theirusage with sysinternals FileMon...

Microsoft websites are inaccessible

I've never had a problem until the past 2-3 months when out of the blue I can not get well formed pages to load at nor can I get past a page that loads a registration page for downloading Microsoft software. I have no problem on any other...

Is Software Firewall Necessary with a H/W already running?

I finally purchased a hardware firewall (Netgear FVS318). Alot of helpful people in the group suggested I go hardware to free some resources and cycles. However, I have seen some people that use BOTH H/W and S/W firewall. I scanned my...

Is Netgear FVS318 a "true" firewall?

I'm just a beginner in computer security in general and firewalls inparticular (though I've spent quite a few years in IT in applicationdevelopment).Netgear FVS318 is described as "True Firewall using Stateful PacketInspection (SPI) and...

Regarding auto configure option in AOL instant messanger.

Hi all,Today I have gone through the AOL instant messsanger. In which I havegone through theconnection option. I checked the field I found that all the field forthe firewall security. I also one more option which is auto configure.Can Any...

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