What is the main purpose of a firewall on a computer? The main purpose of a firewall on a computer means to protect the data, instructions, information, database, files, programs etc. Which are used for tasks performed on a computer system to provide the output data to the end user. The computer system is used to store the files of the operating system, application software and user database files. These types of files are used to protect from the other user or unknown user or attackers from the internet, because they can access these types of files which is beneficial for those unknown users. They can steal from the internet service with unprotected internet connection from the security layer using malicious files such as virus files, malwares, worms etc. Here the firewall is used to protect the database from the malicious files transmission into the computer system memory storage device and without scanning the system the downloaded files are not permitted to save into the computer s...
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