Re: Web Server behind ZoneAlarm?
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Re: Web Server behind ZoneAlarm?

From: Brian Cryer <brianc@127.0.0.1.activesol.co.uk>
Date: Fri Nov 04 2005 - 12:53:01 CET



"Volker Birk" <bumens@dingens.org> wrote in message 


news:436b06a1@news.uni-ulm.de...



(snip)



> Look, Anthony, what I'm doing I'd call "begging". I'm doing it, because


> today so many Windows boxes are being abused as bots, that there really


> is no need for your PC to join in.



This is a really really good point. However it has wider scope than just 


whether or not you run a webserver, because it affects any PC that is 


connected to the internet.



Presumably, a regular sweep with the various malware products will help? I 


know that anti-virus typically doesn't pick up on malware. Other ideas?



-- 
Brian Cryer
www.cryer.co.uk/brian


Received on Mon Nov 21 02:39:17 2005