Re: guidance sought

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

You can read that in my postings here. At least read
<43cc15d2@news.uni-ulm.de>

> and are they truly
> applicable for _all_ or even most malware?

They're affecting all users.

> If a firewall stops 90% instead of its supposed 100% of malicious
> behavior, to me that is still better than 0%.

If "Personal Firewalls" would do that, and would not have extra security
drawbacks beside that, would not open additional attack vectors, then I
would not agree with you, but I could understand, that this would be a
possible view.

> > 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).

The problem is, that no "Personal Firewall" I ever saw offered more
security, but all of the ones, I had to see, added attack vectors a user
does not have with the Windows-Firewall.

Yours,
VB.

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