WinRoute Pro

I'm running a routing box with Windows 2000 Server installed. I currently don't have any firewall installed. Would WinRoute Pro be sufficient? What would you suggest?

The computer running WinRoute Pro will be exposed to any internet traffic. I would recommend a software firewall be installed on that computer to block out commonly hacked ports that windows opens for filesharing. Zonealarm will do this for free, but there are other ones like Sygate Firewall and Norton Personal Firewall that you can buy.

And I would always recommend virus scanners on every computer in your network.

What server components are you using? IIS?

I'm not using IIS now, but I might run a website in the future. I'm just running Routing, DHCP, and DNS services. I am running McAfee Anti-Virus software on the server. I assumed that a free version of Zone Alarm wouldn't work on a server OS, but I could be wrong.

AFAIK it should work. If you do put in IIS, read this sticky.

Other than that, I don't see anything that is a big security risk.

If I decide to run something else for http and ftp instead of IIS, do I still need to activate the service?

legendary said:

If I decide to run something else for http and ftp instead of IIS, do I still need to activate the service?

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No. You would leave IIS disabled (or better yet, uninstalled). The other http or ftp server would most likely install it's own service