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Originally Posted by Chris F.
MD what program did you use to 'archive' all your outlook stuff? That will help us help you 
I think some of the newer cable modems might NAT built in, but I'm not sure (I'm talking to the techie guys here MD, not you  ) |
uhhhh, NAT does nothing but allow many computers on one side of a router to use 1 IP address on the other.... it's not designed as a security feature in any way. It was developed to save a company from not having to have a "real" IP address for every device on the inside of their network. If NAT didn't exist, ARIN would have run out of IP addresses to allocate a long long long time ago.
That being said, there are different schools of thought on whether software firewalls alone are sufficient or whether a router should always be used. I"m a "more is better" type of person when it comes to home firewalls as most people don't have a clue on how to configure them.
My advice is to spend the $70 on a linksys router. That's all I've used for the last 5 years and haven't had any problems.