There are many things about your computer that you might not be aware of, there are many open ports in a standard computer connected to the internet and any one of those open ports can be a gateway for a hacker to get into your system and access your files. This is of course, not good. There are safeguards you can take and programs you can use to close these ports so they cannot be accessed but the problem is still there, the ports exist and are still visible to the intruder. Someone once told me that even if you have good security, a persistent hacker would eventually gain access. This is where firewalls come into play.
Firewalls are systems, which control access policy between two or more networks.
Suffice it to say that firewalls keep people out of your system while letting you do your job normally. These firewalls are very hard to penetrate and are very good investments. Enough about firewalls. Today at SystemLogic.net take a long due look at a network router from a well-known company known as Netgear. The RT314 is a good solution for those of you who had jumped on the broadband bandwagon but don t have anything to share the connection between your systems with.