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Friday, July 05, 2002

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Internet Bodyguards: Don't Go Online Without One
Jay Lyman, NewsFactor Network

Perhaps the biggest advance in personal firewalls is the addition of intrusion detection, which brings to personal computers the ability to log and identify attacks. Faced with ever more complex and devious threats on the Internet, consumers are benefiting from improvements in firewalls that are bringing corporate-style security and scanning to home PCs. Experts say that just as in the corporate setting, firewalls for home- or home office-based PCs are a basic and necessary component in securing systems and data from intruders....

 


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