Re: WinXP SP2 firewall

Alan Illeman wrote:
> "Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers" wrote in message news:40g19rF1a15veU1@individual.net...
>> Yes, the packet filter of a personal firewall can protect you from this
>> kind of threat (at least as long as it's self isn't subject to the
>> attack [1,2]). However, that protection can also be achieved by simply
>> not providing any services to the outside world [3].
>>
>> [1] http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/alerts/id/167
>> [2] http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/virus/story/0,10801,93584,00.html
>> [3] http://www.ntsvcfg.de/ntsvcfg_eng.html
>
> Now you're talking!

I have never said anything different.

> Do you have an English translation for
> http://www.ntsvcfg.de/kss_w2k/kss_w2k.html ?

No, but there are similar pages, e.g. [1].

[1] http://www.hsc.fr/ressources/breves/min_srv_res_win.en.html

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