1. Firewalls
InfoTech 11 ~ Personal Firewalls By definition a firewall is any number of security schemes that prevent unauthorized users from gaining access to a computer network or that monitor transfers of information to and from the network. ... Many software firewalls such as Zone Alarm or Norton Personal Firewall allow the user to tell the Firewall software which applications are allowed to pass through the wall and which is not. ... On the other hand if something like spyware was trying to send anonymous information collected from your computer back to its networks, the firewall would prom...
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