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Question by Mark
Submitted on 2/18/2004
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What are the points of using Firewall with Anti-virus software? And how they are intersect to each others?


Answer by JH
Submitted on 5/19/2004
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Firewalls and anti-virus work on two seperate parts of the problem. A firewall shields your computer from unwanted connections by outsiders. However, virii can still get through - users may download virus attachments in email, may accidentaly download a virus infection from FTP or a website, etc. Two shields are better than one.

 

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