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

["James Patterson Wicks" <pwicks () oxygen com>]

A router that protects you from "Future security holes in the Windows
networking software", huh?  I would love a router like that!  The thing
is, Cisco, Symantec, Network Associates and Trend Micro have joined
forces to try to do what you say your router is doing already.  Tell me,
what is this router have?
 
-----Original Message-----
From: full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com
[mailto:full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com] On Behalf Of Richard M.
Smith
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 6:28 PM
To: full-disclosure () lists netsys com
Subject: RE: [Full-disclosure] Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day,
help the cause

I run a NAT router box at my house which acts as a hardware firewall for
my
home LAN.  It protects me from the following problems:

   - Messenger popup spam
   - RPC worms
   - Accidentally sharing a disk directory with the world
   - Future security holes in the Windows networking software

This type of firewall seems like a bargain to me.  I would use one of
these
router boxes even it I had only one computer to connect to the Internet.

Richard 

-----Original Message-----
From: full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com
[mailto:full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com] On Behalf Of Brandon
Butterworth
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 2:10 PM
To: bugtraq () securityfocus com
Cc: full-disclosure () lists netsys com
Subject: [Full-disclosure] Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help
the
cause

> I just wanted to remind everybody that tomorrow is Personal Firewall
Day.

Yuk.

Whilst I support people taking care of their security I rank personal
firewalls on the same level as virus detection

They don't fix the real problems and lead to a dependency culture of
constant upgrades (if people bother) and alternative vendor sales fud

....

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