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Re: Personal Firewall for Business use


From: "'Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers'" <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 12:06:58 +0100

On 2003-10-30 Dave Swink (dswink) wrote:
A quality PF will not allow the malware the ability to respond or to
disable the protection. For example, Cisco Security Agent blocks
software downloaded from the network from executing anything at all.

I'm not familiar with that product, but after a quick reading through
some PDFs on cisco.com it seems to be part of a NIDS rather than a PF.

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers

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