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A Broadband Router is a hardware firewall?

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Re: A Broadband Router is a hardware firewall?

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Oct 2nd, 2009

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Originally Posted by herque

I always get this message on my system whenever i switch it onl like do you want to download Avast and AVg on your system is it safe and can someone please define it?

exactly this kind of message used to appear in my screen to just after the booting was complete and I connected to net.but I was scared ,though I dont know if there was anything to be scared at all,but I uninstalled avast.now I dont use it anymore

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Oct 6th, 2009

Hardware firewalls are still software based, and yes there still can be bugs. Hardware firewalls are used to provide a single firewall for a whole network instead of having one on each computer, it may also save you a bit of resources, but for Linux the firewalls built into the kernel and doesn't really use many resources.

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