Re: WinXP SP2 firewall

"Triffid" <triffid@nebula.net> wrote in message news:NW3of.2425$El.260542@news20.bellglobal.com...
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> Alan Illeman wrote:
> > "Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers" <usenet-2005@planetcobalt.net> wrote in message news:40at1dF19h0avU1@individual.net...
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> >>Alan Illeman wrote:
> >>
> >>>"Kyle Stedman" <kyle_st@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:Xns972BC66354474kylest@69.28.186.158...
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> >>>>Only idiots use personal software firewalls. Get a NAT router with SPI.
> >>>>See this, from http://www.samspade.org/d/firewalls.html
> >>>>
> >>>>"Personal Firewalls" are mostly snake-oil
> >>>
> >>>Just one opinion, that's all.
> >>
> >>It's more than "just one opinion". He gave a lot of good reasons, though
> >>you obviously chose to ignore them.
> >>
> >>
> >>>I'm running Win2K Pro, SP4, FAT32 instead of the more complicated
> >>>NTFS, always run as Admin
> >>
> >>Well, having different users on FAT32 would be utterly pointless anyway,
> >>wouldn't it?
> >>
> >>
> >>>and have been virus free for three years - because of the so-called
> >>>"Personal" firewall, Kerio 2.1.5
> >>
> >>That's plain wrong, because no firewall protects you from virii. When a
> >>firewall detects an infection you're already toast.
> >
> >
> > That doesn't explain why I've been virus free for so long.
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> You are virus free because you use AVG.
>
> The fact you also use a PFW is irrelevant. Claiming you are virus free
> "because of" a PFW is plain wrong, as 59cobalt pointed out.

That is just plain silly. AVG doesn't prevent infections, it just checks if they
are present.

His comment..

"no firewall protects you from virii. When a firewall detects an infection
you're already toast."

..misses the point entirely. A firewall, correctly implemented, prevents
unauthorised access.
Received on Fri Dec 23 20:07:52 2005