Re: Zonealrm: Need to identify the source of outgoing request
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Re: Zonealrm: Need to identify the source of outgoing request

From: Sebastian Gottschalk <seppi@seppig.de>
Date: Sat Mar 25 2006 - 14:15:35 CET



Duane Arnold wrote:



> And I'll tell you right now. I worked with guy at work that had over 60 


> compromises on his Win 9'x O/S machine due to him and his family's 


> activities on the machine that didn't have a host based packet filter FW or 


> an AV.



The reason is that Win98 doesn't involve any security model.



> Home users like that can use all the help they can get, including running of 


> a PFW. :)



This is no help, this is a harassment of clueless people with technical


stuff they don't understand.


Received on Mon May  1 01:02:16 2006