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Originally Posted by astra
I believe that my Linksys NAT capable wireless router does the most important bit of defending me from intrusion but I use ZoneAlarm to prevent some s/w on my PC to access the Internet without my explicit permission.
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And thats the little mistake - ZoneAlarm itself has errors. (I am not saying that ZoneAlarm is a bad product - every software has errors). There has been more then one case of "root exploits inside a desktop firewall" - and then the firewall itself is a security problem.
A well configured system does not need a desktop firewall, a badly configured system does not profit from it.