Re: Kids bypassing firewall via web proxy sites

E. wrote:
> Leythos wrote:
>> In article <4419045d@news.uni-ulm.de>, bumens@dingens.org says...
>>> It is a matter of fact, that it is possible to keep malware from
>>> running on your PC.
>>
>> Oh, and one other thing - I have 67 machines at one location, not one
>> of them has detectable malware on them - not by any of the commercial
>> detection methods, not by any of the AdAware/SBS&D, Symantec,
>> Mcafee.... If I didn't have a firewall in place, filtering content,
>> blocking access, etc... it would not be possible to achieve that
>> success in a semipublic setting.
>
> I have similar examples. Why is it that despite empirical evidence of
> filtering working, some claim it does not work?

We don't claim it doesn't work. We claim (and proved) it doesn't work
reliably. Which is why it shouldn't be considered a security measure.
Plus, the same effects usually can be achieved by other means without
running additional software.

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