How safe is it to be online without a firewall/antivirus

Thanks Gbos and Acer for the info. For the time happy with avast+sygate combo. Can see how much norton was slowing me down.

Cheers

 

Is there a point in using it if one already has a hardware router firewall???

 

afaik it gives you extra options, for example if a trojan is somehow installed in your pc then the software firewall will note that an application not currently in your ¡allow¢ list is trying to transmit data and it will block it.

 

i'm going to try this interesting product-
http://www.smoothwall.org/

where first layer will be smothwall,with computers for browsing behind it using also zonealarm, and in second layer will be trading computers connected together in small network behind router, which will be also behing smothwall.
anyone tried smothwall here?
ty

 

I am looking through you hard disk right now.

nitro

 

Folks,

For further information on computer security you may want to see my summary at:
http://www.hingefirescreen.com/spyware_advice.htm


- Greg