Do you have Firewall to your computer?

India
December 21, 2006 11:40am CST
Do you have Fire wall to your computer?
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16 responses
@matt608 (843)
21 Dec 06
Not on this one, it is a mac, but on my PC I do.
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@asimo603 (1366)
• Malaysia
23 Dec 06
McAfee  - McAfee Personal Firewall Plus
I have firewall in my computer and mine is McAfee Personal Firewall Plus which comes with the DELL 640m laptop I bought recently.
@perugu (5279)
• India
23 Dec 06
hi,actually this computer is not mine.it's my nephew's one.he went to bangalore for job[B.E.,computers] searching.i am using this as it is......
@humaaaa (1386)
• Pakistan
23 Dec 06
Yes definatly i have a Firefall :p which comes with sp2 ?)
@suahsan (785)
• United States
23 Dec 06
well I haven’t because I am a client of ISA server that is why I don’t need to install it and I think our server is securing us so I dun need to install it…
• Philippines
23 Dec 06
I have the Firewall in Windows XP SP2 activated. I also have a firewall installed in my router. :)
@Sm00tH (2037)
• Belgium
22 Dec 06
my firewall is built in my internet security suite from macafee
• India
22 Dec 06
yes i do have a fire wall for my pc.
@blanksolid (1631)
• Spain
22 Dec 06
Yes, i have firewall software, its very important to have one because you are safe from hackers attack, have a nice day on mylot.
@kurpix (607)
• Indonesia
23 Dec 06
yes, i do. i always use it to protection :)
@siva12 (800)
• India
21 Dec 06
I am not using firewall.
• India
22 Dec 06
Basically, a firewall is a barrier to keep destructive forces away from your property. In fact, that's why its called a firewall. Its job is similar to a physical firewall that keeps a fire from spreading from one area to the next. As you read through this article, you will learn more about firewalls, how they work and what kinds of threats they can protect you from. What It Does A firewall is simply a program or hardware device that filters the information coming through the Internet connection into your private network or computer system If an incoming packet of information is flagged by the filters, it is not allowed through. If you have read the article How Web Servers Work then you know a good bit about how data moves on the Internet, and you can easily see how a firewall helps protect computers inside a large company. Let's say that you work at a company with 500 employees. The company will therefore have hundreds of computers that all have network cards connecting them together. In addition, the company will have one or more connections to the Internet through something like T1 or T3 lines. Without a firewall in place, all of those hundreds of computers are directly accessible to anyone on the Internet. A person who knows what he or she is doing can probe those computers, try to make FTP connections to them, try to make telnet connections to them and so on. If one employee makes a mistake and leaves a security hole, hackers can get to the machine and exploit the hole.
• India
22 Dec 06
If you have been using the Internet for any length of time, and especially if you work at a larger company and browse the Web while you are at work, you have probably heard the term *firewall* used. For example, you often hear people in companies say things like, "I can't use that site because they won't let it through the firewall." If you have a fast Internet connection into your home (either a DSL coearing about firewalls for your home network as well. It turns out that a small home network has many of the same security issues that a large corporate network does. You can use a firewall to protect your home network and family from offensive Web sites and potential hackers
• India
22 Dec 06
no i dont have firewall attached to my system
@Opteron (1842)
• Italy
21 Dec 06
yes I'm using a firewall because if not I would get many worms in my pc. I use jetico firewall, it's a freeware one, but very effective! Try it! jetico 1.0
@sunshinecup (7871)
21 Dec 06
Yep, but it's a bit outdated. It's a Sygate and they don't offer a free version anymore. I love the free things, so I have to take sometime and find a new one.