05-11-2004, 03:35 PM
I like to think of firewalls as another tool you can use to protect your computer. Not the end all be all of safety and an end to personal computing responsibility (like keeping it up to date and clean from infection). Users need to be dilligent about maintaining their computers and most of the problems easily solve themselves or never are a problem to begin with. Too bad personal responsibility isn't high on people's priority list anymore.