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Re: "Default" Internet Service


From: Dave Howe <DaveHowe () gmx co uk>
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 15:39:13 +0100


John Curran wrote:
If you're asserting that having firewalls in the path doesn't have
any impact on rate of infection, please provide a link to this data.
Actually, it doesn't - practical experience on a medium sized corporate network is that the firewall protects perfectly against TCP/IP worms - right up to the first time some senior management bozo plugs his laptop onto the network that his teen son was playing online games with all last night... and has no effect at all on email or website/browser 'sploits.


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