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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
The best firewall, in the end, is the end-user.
Firewalls can (and will be) turned off, virus scanners will not stay up to date by themselves and will also be turned off, people will still open unknown attachments without looking and install activex controls from websites (naturally, that goes for Windows only). Or open email from people they don't know and link to websites from those emails. And people will still enter usernames and passwords at phishing sites.
I don't think a simple application is the solution. You'll need several. And even then you aren't completely safe.
And I agree with this:
but I'd like to add to that:
The first part is to educate the user how to use the internet safely (we managed with my mother, so it should be possible!)
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Please keep in mind 1 thing.
Many people do actually think, that having security software for every bit is the best thing to do.
However - I tend to enforce the KISS principle on my systems. "Keep It Simple Stupid". In fact - if you have nothing that is going to fiddle in the background of your system all the time, doing loads of things you don't understand anyway - detecting a strange behavior is very simple.
If in fact, you have An AV installed, Zonealarm, all kind of other Filters to filter out Pop-up' s, privacy filter etc. - you will not know what is going on - and, last but not least, you will stop thinking about securing your own data and behavior on the net - which IMHO is the biggest Mistake every Human sitting in front of a computer screen - is doing !