William,

My understanding is that a firewall will prevent a hacker from gaining
access to your computer through the internet connection.  Many of
today's routers have built in firewalls, but not all routers; check with
the manufacture.

The emails that I've been getting that come through the newsgroup have
almost all been of the Klez variety.  It is a nasty worm and in most
cases requires a reformatting of the hard drive.  I know because it
happened to me.  If you are not running a virus protection program I'd
suggest you get one immediately.  Owning a virus protection program
won't do you any good if you do not update it on a weekly basis.  As
much as I hate giving control over to a software program to
automatically update itself this is one case where I'd recommend it.

Anyway, that's my two cents worth.

Richard

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of developtrust
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 11:32 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: virus filtering?? NVC

I've heard that using a router will work as it has a firewall. I've
never
been sure if this is really good protection. People who know say it is,
but
if you have only one computer why use a router? These days though many
people have more than one computer.

William