Re: Recurrent question

Quaestor wrote:
> Triffid wrote:
>> Leythos wrote:
>>> Personal firewalls can and do block outgoing traffic.
>>
>> Only if the application generating the traffic isn't smart enough to
>> reconfigure, disable, or bypass the personal firewall.
>
> IF the personal firewall is running on a separate machine it gets a
> lot harder to do that.

IF the personal firewall was doing that it wasn't a PERSONAL firewall
anymore (hint: you may want to deliberate over why they are called
PERSONAL). Plus, if it were running on a separate machine it wouldn't be
able to try and filter by process anyway.

/me detects: Quaestor is in dire need of dried frog pills.

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