Re: A good firewall working fine in default?

Poster 60 <ekron@wapda.com> wrote:
> > Great. No popups. But some trojan horses left, I bet. And another box
> > being part of a botnet.
> Certainly hope not.
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Isn't this an oxymoron? ;-)

> It's on dialup and only used at certain times -
> not every day, but a botnet master probably wouldn't care as long as he
> has control over the computer. I know they prefer broadband setups.

Why do you think so? Usually botnets are build up automagically.

Yours,
VB.

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