Re: Firewall with MAC address ACL that is dynamic
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Re: Firewall with MAC address ACL that is dynamic

From: Volker Birk <bumens@dingens.org>
Date: Wed Sep 28 2005 - 19:26:27 CEST



bjriffel@ho__tmail.com <bjriffel@hotmail.com> wrote:


> The problem is, that last spring our ISP was 2 days away from closing


> our connection due to virus activity and traffic coming from our


> network.



If users already have compromized systems, then installing an Anti-Virus


program will not solve this problem any more:



http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/secmgmt/sm0504.mspx



Yours,


VB.



-- 
MAC-Filtering bringt so viel Schutz vor "Hackern" wie Zeitungspapier vor
einer Atombome. (MAC filtering is protecting against "hackers" like newsprint
is protecting against a nuclear bomb)
                  - Christian Forler in de.comp.security.misc


Received on Thu Sep 29 20:11:09 2005