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Originally Posted by smcaul
Glad you got it working. To be honest I don't run a firewall on any of the (7) PC's behind my router. I let the Routers firewall do the protecting, working on the assumption that if they can get through that then a software firewall on a PC is not going to be much of a problem for them!!
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Except a decent host based software firewall will provide egress filtering as well, thus protecting you from having your data exfiltrated or any nasties from contacting their home server in the event that a machine is compromised by a worm/trojan.