McAfee Security

yoganmahew said:

Hi Happy Girl, you could use the firewall in Vista - microsoft say it is a big improvement on the one in XP! No doubt the experts will give many reasons not to use it! - I am not an expert in these matters.

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How do I access this? Sorry but not very literate in this type of thing.

I have McAfee on my PC both Anti-Virus and Firewall. The firewall subscription expired about 3 months ago and I didn't bother renewing it for 2 reasons:

1. I still have the program on the computer and it still functions well (however I can't update it).
2. I have the Netopia 3347WG broadband box which has a built in firewall.

Question, would this be sufficient, I know that it will not be 100% effective. For example, how good is the Netopia firewall, can it be updated? How long could I leave a firewall on a PC without updating it before it comes to a stage where it is not effective enough?

Happy Girl said:

How do I access this? Sorry but not very literate in this type of thing.

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Hi Happy Girl, I don't have vista, so I'm not sure what to do there, but on XP, go to Control Panel --> Network Settings and click on the "Change Windows Firewall settings" text in the left hand panel. It may be similar?