Personal Firewall Day?

[Paul Robertson <proberts () patriot net>]

With all the bot zombies, worms and viruses out in the world, one of the 
conversations at the recent NTBugTraq retreat was about what we could do 
about it.  

My proposal is that we have a "Personal Firewall Day."  Where we all try 
to get home users (and corporate users if applicable/possible) to install 
home or personal firewalls, up-to-date Anti-Virus software, etc.  I'm 
thinking this would be best soon after Christmas, so we have a chance to 
get all the new PC presents covered as well.

Anyway, I've fired up a mailing list (which may move eventually to a 
"work" domain) for discussion of my proposal.  I'll start approving 
postings in the next few days, once we get a few more subscribers, and I 
have a chance to formally lay out my idea.

The link to subscribe is up at http://bat.clueby4.org/pfd

You can also send a message containing the word "subscribe" to 
pfd-request () bat clueby4 org

If we can achieve some critical mass, perhaps we can make a difference, 
even removing a smallish percentage of vulnerable hosts from the Net will 
help slow propogation of some of these things.

Thanks,

Paul
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probertson () trusecure com Director of Risk Assessment TruSecure Corporation

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