Subj : Pro-active firewall?
To   : Sean Dennis
From : Shurato
Date : Wed Aug 07 2024 12:51:00



 SD> Hello Shurato!

 SD> 06 Aug 24 18:33, you wrote to me:

 SD> Sh> I have a friend sending me one, so I'm set.  It'll be preconfigured
 SD> as
 SD> Sh> well.

 SD> I have my pfSense box running on an old HP Elitedesk 705 desktop (3.4Ghz
 SD> i5,  8GB RAM, 1TB HDD, with dual PCIe Intel PRO/1000 NICs)...absolute
 SD> overkill for a firewall but it's what I had laying around in spare
 SD> parts.  Handles  everything that gets thrown at it very nicely.

 SD> Like I said before, an edge firewall will not protect open ports.  You
 SD> have to  have a good firewall on the machine with open ports so it
 SD> can protect itself.

What would you suggest for Win32 for the latter?  I've got Bitdefender
running, but I've been using the Windows firewall.  I have some services
under Win64 and some under Linux.  Win64 is running the Windows Firewall with
MalwareBytes helping and Linux just has UFW.

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