Re: Port blocking last resort in fight against virus

[Petri Helenius <pete () he iki fi>]

Mans Nilsson wrote:

> Subject: Re: Port blocking last resort in fight against virus Date: Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 10:42:38PM -0400 Quoting Sean 
> Donelan (sean () donelan com):
>
>  
>
> > I think filters/firewalls are useful.  I believe every computer should
> > have one.  I have several.  I just disagree on who should control the
> > filters.
> >    
>
> Bingo! 
>
>  
Firewalls are a patch to broken network application architechture. If 
your applications
would have been properly designed, you would not have the need for 
firewalls. They
are for perimeter defence only anyway.

Pete