
Our tests
have showed that among advanced firewall applications, ActiveDefender
ranked highest overall with usability, protection, reliability,
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Who needs a firewall?
Anyone
who is responsible for a private network that is connected to a public
network needs firewall protection. Furthermore, anyone who connects
so much as a single computer to the Internet via modem should have personal
firewall software. Many dial-up Internet users believe that anonymity
will protect them. They feel that no malicious intruder would be motivated
to break into their computer.
Dial-up users who have been victims of malicious attacks
and who have lost days of work, perhaps having to reinstall their operating
system, know that this is not true. Irresponsible pranksters can use
automated robots to scan random IP addresses and attack whenever the
opportunity presents itself.
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