Re: A good firewall working fine in default?

Volker Birk wrote:
> 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?
  I would think the broadband speed would be advantageous.

  Usually botnets are build up automagically.

   Now that you mention that it does jar my memory - you're right.

>
> Yours,
> VB.
Received on Mon May 1 00:51:18 2006