Re: Most Popular Hardware Firewalls?

Sebastian Gottschalk wrote:
> Spender wrote:
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>>Maybe you watch too much television. Have you talked to any teenagers
>>recently? Most are incredibly ignorant. Sure, they can often get around
>>software solutions such as Net Nanny (often with the help of some
>>knowledgeable pedophile unfortunately), but a properly setup firewall is
>>considerably more difficult to circumvent.
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> No, trivial as always. Just Google Cache is enough to do so, or do you
> want to deny access to Google?
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>>>>>Home users usually don't need a firewall at all.
>>>>
>>>>Wrong, those are the ones that need it most.
>>>
>>>Totally wrong. Home users don't have a clue about networking so they
>>>can't achieve any security with firewalls.
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>>Speaking for yourself again. Basic firewalling is not difficult at all.
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> Yeah, it's breaking everything. And pretty soon the users allows this or
> that, or if something doesn't work he disables it temporarily. Pretty
> unavoidable with such crappy default settings. And as long as IE, OE, MS
> Office, MSN Messenger, mIRC or other crap is allowed, you'll get the
> malware anyway.

Not true with a decent firewall that does IPS.

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>>Actually yes, a really good firewall can help by blocking content.
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> So, blocking all JavaScript, CSS, all Links containing "ftp:", Objects
> and (I)Frames?
>

No. Siganture based detection. Blockeing PARTICULAR javascript exploits,
etc.

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>>But have you ever considered a simple popup blocker?
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> Do I need one? My webbrowser has a default deny policy on all JavaScript
> and NSPlugin actions invoking opening a new window with a configuration
> notice. I wouldn't even call it blocking, it's just a must-have feature.
Received on Mon May 1 00:53:39 2006