08-17-2002, 09:46 PM
This just in...
THE FIREWALL IN THE LINKSYS ROUTER ACTUALLY WORKS!!!11
This weekend I had my cable company come out to check my line because my cable modem was going in and out. Well, since they really don't like when you have more than one computer connected to the modem, I disconnected my router. While the router was disconnected, some fucknut connected to a shared folder on my machine that had write access. Next thing I know, Norton AV is going fucking mad with nimda virus files in that shared folder. Since I've had my router I never had this problem, so now we know....
Don't share folders if you are connected directly to your cable modem without, at the very least, a software firewall. Get the router discussed in this thread and you can have multiple connections that are quasi-secure behind its built-in firewall. I say "quasi-secure" because thinking any network is totally secure is just foolish.
Bottom line, the Linksys router kicks some pretty major ass! :thumbs-up:
THE FIREWALL IN THE LINKSYS ROUTER ACTUALLY WORKS!!!11
This weekend I had my cable company come out to check my line because my cable modem was going in and out. Well, since they really don't like when you have more than one computer connected to the modem, I disconnected my router. While the router was disconnected, some fucknut connected to a shared folder on my machine that had write access. Next thing I know, Norton AV is going fucking mad with nimda virus files in that shared folder. Since I've had my router I never had this problem, so now we know....
Don't share folders if you are connected directly to your cable modem without, at the very least, a software firewall. Get the router discussed in this thread and you can have multiple connections that are quasi-secure behind its built-in firewall. I say "quasi-secure" because thinking any network is totally secure is just foolish.
Bottom line, the Linksys router kicks some pretty major ass! :thumbs-up: