[Grammar] a program that can block the accesses to your computer.

I wish the form proper English sentences about computing. Would you please help me with them?

1. A firewall is a program that can quickly block unauthorized accesses to your computer?

hhtt21 said:

I wish [STRIKE]the[/STRIKE] to form proper English sentences about computing. Would you please help me with [STRIKE]them[/STRIKE] this one?

1. A firewall is a program that can quickly block unauthorized [STRIKE]accesses[/STRIKE] access to your computer?

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See above.

Instantly?

I wouldn't use can. I would say:

A firewall is a program that blocks access to your computer.

Tarheel said:

I wouldn't use can. I would say:

A firewall is a program that blocks access to your computer.

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That loses the important information that it's unauthorised access that's denied. It sounds as if even you can't get in!

emsr2d2 said:

That loses the important information that it's unauthorised access that's denied. It sounds as if even you can't get in!

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The original sentence doesn't use unauthorized. I would understand my sentence to mean that, but it does make sense to include the word.

I wouldn't think anybody would block access to themselves, so that didn't occur to me.

I'm not a computer expert, but I have heard of firewalls, and I know what they do. (Apparently, they got the idea for the word from structures designed to prevent the spread of real fires.)

Tarheel said:

The original sentence doesn't use unauthorized. I would understand my sentence to mean that, but it does make sense to include the word.

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Taken from post #1: A firewall is a program that can quickly block unauthorized accesses to your computer?

A program that blocks access to the computer.

Sorry. My mistake. I still wouldn't use can. It's not a program that can do it. It's a program that does it.

A firewall is a program that blocks unauthorized access to your computer.

I wouldn't use any adverbs.

Re: A program that blocks access to the computer.

Tarheel said:

Sorry. My mistake. I still wouldn't use can. It's not a program that can do it. It's a program that does it.

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But don't they fail sometimes? So can't they do it sometimes?