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Installation of a firewall can give a false sense of security, because many users do not understand the limitations of a firewall. Specifically, a firewall primarily defends against unsolicited incoming attacks: a hacker tries to access the internal network from the outside.

Firewalls often fail to effectively protect from threats from the inside: viruses (malware of all sorts, worms, etc), once active on the inside, may be able to spread within the network, and spawn network activity that traverses the firewall in both directions.

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