Re: guidance sought

On 31-Mar-2006, Volker Birk <bumens@dingens.org> wrote:

> ArtDent <par@noyd.invalidname> wrote:
> > I was trying to suggest that uneducated users should use a personal
> > firewall.
>
> This will not work because of design flaws in nearly any common
> "Personal
> Firewall".

What types of flaws are you talking about here, and are they truly
applicable for _all_ or even most malware?
If a firewall stops 90% instead of its supposed 100% of malicious
behavior, to me that is still better than 0%.

>
> I'm suggesting that uneducated users should use the Windows-Firewall,

I do not understand your reasoning here, you say they should use something
that does half the job that some other fw does (or at least tries to).

> and should not use Internet Explorer, but another web-browser.

This I agree with 100%.

>
> Yours,
> VB.

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