Re: Don't use a Firewall other than Windows Firewall?

On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 12:49:01 -0700, Quaestor <no-spam@my.place> wrote:

>Leythos wrote:
>
>>In article <11ioilmkp80pt94@news.supernews.com>, no-spam@my.place
>>says...
>>
>>
>>>optikl wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Outbound packet filtering or application control is no more effective
>>>>than the implementation of Safe Computing Practices.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>To be safe and effective one must totally reject this belief. Outbound
>>>application control is the essence of stopping spyware. Anyone who
>>>advocates not using it must be a spammer spreadying spyware, hijacking
>>>machines thereby. Or just plain stupid.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>If you have your network setup properly, your users not running as
>>Admins, and your firewall filtering content, you don't need any
>>application to stop spyware - it will be stopped before it reaches a
>>computer that can run it.
>>
>
>That's a lot of If's. Suppose someone brings in an outside machine,
>such as a laptop used in the field (common practice these days)?
>Suppose someone brings in an infected disk? Suppose that someone is
>deliberately trying to infect your system? I know, no one would ever do
>such a thing, but you see, they DO, all the time (industrial espionage
>and sabotage, they call it).

And your solution is a sw firewall that will likely be disabled by
malicious code?

Art
 
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Received on Thu Sep 29 20:09:14 2005