luciusad2004
05-19-2008, 11:17 AM
Quick question. Do you guys use third party firewalls or the generic windows firewall?
When i was in school my first semester I had an assignment for computer literacy were they made us run one of those port scanners against our computers. I ran it against my computer w/ comodo firewall, w/ windows firewall, and w/out a firewall. Each time i got positive results. I inquired about these seemingly odd results in the Compute Science lab and one of the teaching assistants said it could be because I'm behind a NAT router. Anyway, long story short, it really made me doubt the necessity of a third party firewall beyond the windows firewall. So, what do you guys use, and have you ever had a problem? Do you think its absolutely necessary to run a third party firewall, or are you content w/ what uncle bill gives you.
When i was in school my first semester I had an assignment for computer literacy were they made us run one of those port scanners against our computers. I ran it against my computer w/ comodo firewall, w/ windows firewall, and w/out a firewall. Each time i got positive results. I inquired about these seemingly odd results in the Compute Science lab and one of the teaching assistants said it could be because I'm behind a NAT router. Anyway, long story short, it really made me doubt the necessity of a third party firewall beyond the windows firewall. So, what do you guys use, and have you ever had a problem? Do you think its absolutely necessary to run a third party firewall, or are you content w/ what uncle bill gives you.