Free (But Reliable) Virus Protection and Firewall??
01-04-2006, 10:11 PM
#31
Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: God's Country (Castle Rock, Co)
Posts: 1,489
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Originally Posted by dodgezilla04
after reading this last night, I downloaded AVG free, tried to install it and it says that I dont have enough system resources. That is not right. If I can run autocad 2004, nortan AV, have 1 gig ram, you'd think that I could run a small antivirus program. Their website doesnt say anything about resource problems. Will keep trying.
01-04-2006, 10:23 PM
#33
Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: North Texas
Posts: 167
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
If your computer is behind a router like a linksys, dlink, etc then you don't need to run a software firewall. Your machine is using a non routable, private IP address and can't be hit from the outside without specifically going into the router and telling it to do port forwarding. All of these routers are doing NAT (Network Address Translation) out of the box and this is how they work. The address that hits the DTR webserver when you view this isn't the IP of your machine, its the IP of your router.
Software firewalls on Windows have a high overhead and most people are behind routers anyway.
Software firewalls on Windows have a high overhead and most people are behind routers anyway.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
7sec.cuda
3rd Gen High Performance and Accessories (5.9L Only)
23
01-25-2010 05:23 PM