Hey, Not sure about that. If your Windows PC has virus, it can be sent automatically by your email software to your contact list, shared on the LAN (wired network / wifi) ex:Wannacry, ... PC can become a botnet, the bad guy is able to take control for example by a Tor instance (hidden services) running on your PC installed by the virus, etc...
I don't think Freedombox can prevent security problems coming to/from your PC. Yes there's a firewall set up in FBX, but it will protect FBX itself, than the LAN behind if FBX is acting as a router. If I'm not wrong, the firewall is set up as this : - all incoming packets from WAN are dropped/blocked, only FBX services are available. So if you run a mail server on another machine/IP on your LAN, your FBX as router will block connection to the mail server from the WAN. - all outgoing packets from LAN to WAN are not blocked, everything can go outside. (may be I'm wrong...) Yoel Koenka : > I think it is different because if you have a virus on your PC that > sends stuff out, the freedombox could be used as a firewall to block > such messages.
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