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Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 04:56:42 +0530
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 17:47:28 -0500 (EST), Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com> wrote:
There is a lot of wishful thinking, but security people seem to be very bad about actually testing their theories to see if they are effective. A lot of snake-oil gets sold using the theory it can't hurt. Many Home/SOHO PC's are self-infected by the owners. Network firewalls and anti-virus software are very poor at preventing that. The really scary thing is the infection rate of Home/SOHO computers with AV/firewalls is higher than "naked" computers.
er, so having no firewall or antivirus software on your home broadband connection with an XP box hooked onto it would be just as safe as an XP box having $software_fw and frontended by $hw_firewall that at least does NAT and a bit of packet filtering on the side? I'd be interested in seeing the study you're quoting .. thanks --srs -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists () gmail com)
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- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing, (continued)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Sean Donelan (Dec 18)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Suresh Ramasubramanian (Dec 18)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Jared Mauch (Dec 18)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Sean Donelan (Dec 19)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Suresh Ramasubramanian (Dec 19)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine (Dec 19)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Sean Donelan (Dec 19)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Barney Wolff (Dec 19)
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- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Barney Wolff (Dec 19)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Suresh Ramasubramanian (Dec 19)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Sean Donelan (Dec 18)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Suresh Ramasubramanian (Dec 19)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Sean Donelan (Dec 19)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Richard Irving (Dec 19)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Petri Helenius (Dec 19)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing David Vincent (Dec 19)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Jerry Pasker (Dec 19)
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- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Suresh Ramasubramanian (Dec 19)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Larry Smith (Dec 19)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Charles Cala (Dec 20)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Iljitsch van Beijnum (Dec 19)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Robert E. Seastrom (Dec 19)