Re: Avast and Proxomitron

On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 17:18:34 GMT, Duane Arnold <notme@notme.com>
wrote:

>
>What are you talking about here? The operative word here that you have
>mentioned is *STOPPING*. The personal FW solution is stopping the
>unsolicited scans, probes and attacks.
>
I don't think I made myself very clear here. What I meant was, how
is it, that inspite of all the secuity I have running on my PC these
sites were attempting to access my PC.
Are you saying that these attempts are from outside of the PC. to put
it crudely, rather than as a process from within the PC?
>If a malware program was running on your machine, then it would have made
>a solicitation for traffic to the remote site (phoned home) and the FW
>would have let the communication between the malware program running on
>your machine and the one sitting at the remote site, otherwise if the no
>program running on your machine is making the solicitation to a remote
>site by sending outbound traffic to it, then the PFW solution is going
>drop the inbound traffic at the FW.
>
Thank you for the reply.
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Peter James
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Received on Thu Sep 29 19:59:29 2005