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Re: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause
From: "Mary Landesman" <mlande () bellsouth net>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 13:55:18 -0500
That's pretty much like teaching your kids to never talk to strangers, or never visit the "bad" part of town. Fact is, most crimes are committed by people we know. Microsoft is often victimized, mainly because they are so ubiquitous. Cisco is running a poll right now to see which of the 17 critical patches are most important to users, because they only have the manpower to fix 10 of them. Should we all stop using Cisco products? This anti-MS drivel is so tiresome. -- Mary ----- Original Message ----- From: "David F. Skoll" <dfs () roaringpenguin com> To: <tlarholm () pivx com> Cc: <bugtraq () securityfocus com>; <ntbugtraq () listserv ntbugtraq com>; <full-disclosure () lists netsys com> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 12:06 PM Subject: [Full-disclosure] Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 tlarholm () pivx com wrote:
I just wanted to remind everybody that tomorrow is Personal Firewall Day. http://www.personalfirewallday.org/
That Web site is utterly disingenuous. Rather than giving low-value information, how about high-value information that actually protects people: 1) Don't use Windows. 2) Don't use Outlook. Our company uses neither Windows nor Outlook, and although we do have a firewall, we do not use anti-virus software. Of course, the sponsors of the site (Microsoft and a bunch of anti-virus vendors) can hardly see it as being in their interest to actually create a secure computing environment. Regards, David. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
Current thread:
- Re: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day,help the cause, (continued)
- Re: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day,help the cause jan . muenther (Jan 17)
- Re: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day,help the cause Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 17)
- RE: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause Chris Harrington (Jan 15)
- Re: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 16)
- Re: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause Dani Wuck (Jan 15)
- Re: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause Ron DuFresne (Jan 15)
- Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause SecuresDotComs (Jan 15)
- Re: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause Damian Gerow (Jan 15)
- Re: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause David F. Skoll (Jan 15)
- Anti-MS drivel Edward W. Ray (Jan 17)
- Re: Anti-MS drivel Luca Mihailescu (Jan 17)
- RE: Help Net Security Dot Squatting ? the measly one (Jan 18)
- Re: Anti-MS drivel martin f krafft (Jan 22)