Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause

[Ron DuFresne <dufresne () winternet com>]

There have been alot of 'complaints' or FUD replies concerneing the
efforts for personal firewall day, 1/15/04, yet not a single, "this would
work much better" replies or offerings.  do  any of the unsuporteres have
something better to offer that is;

cheap
effective
quick
allows the non-IT-professional to make a new home system safer

Or are we seeing another version of FUD-based-job-security-seeking BS
spewing from these folks who are not going to get $150 an hour fees in at
least 4 hour increments from the average home users to 'fix' their systems
that can't be broke/borked as they are brandy-spankin-new.

Thanks,

Ron DuFresne

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Joris De Donder wrote:

> > I just wanted to remind everybody that tomorrow is Personal Firewall
> > Day.
> "False Sense of Security Day" would be a better name, imho.
>
> Raising awareness is a good thing, pretending that people will be safe
> if they install (buy) one or more products is not.
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> Joris
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