Although imperfect, its weapons include a firewall that effectively blocks foreign Web sites by groups like Amnesty International and Falun Gong, and a number of Chinese-language media sites in Taiwan, to name a few.
And since broadband connections are considered a tasty target for some criminal hackers who might try to use your line for malicious purposes, it includes a firewall, which can defend your machine from prying eyes.
Other features include a firewall, advertisement blocking in the browser, parental controls, and the ability to prevent confidential information from being transmitted outside the computer.
Make sure your current antivirus doesn't include a firewall.
They all employ a device that monitors the state of each network device and ensures that it's running with some kind of protective measures, including a personal firewall.
Though only the size of a pizza box, the Airlok 525 contains the guts of a half-dozen machines that WISPs usually buy separately, including a router, a firewall, a storage cache to store Web pages locally for faster call-up, a bandwidth manager, a performance monitor and a computer that handles billing and authentication and authorization of users.
Gordon Brown, the former British prime minister, wrote in a column for Reuters that the G-20 must produce a concerted global action plan, including a robust European firewall to stop contagion and a comprehensive growth plan.
The platform is comprised of multiple scalable components, including a Web Application Firewall (WAF) and a DDoS mitigation system.
Symantec's Norton Internet Security suite includes a personal firewall, antivirus software and a copy of iClean by Aladdin Systems, which can clean up old Internet files, cookies and other clutter that can accumulate on the Mac during Web browsing.
As part of a larger academic institution, these community health clinics faced unique barriers to using the web to transfer patient information, including an electronic hospital firewall that prevented clinics from sending patient data to outside sources and privacy concerns related to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act provisions.
