Re: Bypassed software firewall?
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Re: Bypassed software firewall?

From: Wolfgang Kueter <wolfgang@shconnect.de>
Date: Mon Jul 11 2005 - 18:30:24 CEST



chicagofan wrote:



 


> Since I fall into one of the above 2 categories [take your pick], and I


> have years of experience which proved they were not "useless" to ME,



How do you know? 'ALARM, $FIREWALL blocked remote access from evil cracker


originating vom IP a.b.c.d' is not an evidence for usefulness. That is just


the attempt of the firewall-placebo to make you believe, it has done


something good. Can you trust it?


 


> You can have the last word, I'm bowing out of this "useless" debate.



Once it comes to details you bow out ...



Wolfgang


Received on Thu Sep 29 19:58:25 2005