Administrivia #31006: Personal Firewall Day is coming

From: Russ (Russ.Cooper_at_RC.ON.CA)
Date: 10/31/03

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    One of the discussions that occurred at the NTBugtraq Retreat this year
    was the idea of holding a "Personal Firewall Day". A fuller explanation
    is being worked up, but basically the idea is to have a day where we
    blitz the public with the idea of getting, installing, and enabling a
    Personal Firewall. The more people we reach the more Trojans and bots we
    get rid of, and we reduce the number of systems available to worms and
    their ilk.

    The idea is the brain-child of my cohort Paul Robertson, who
    co-moderates the Firewall-Wizards mailing list. Supporting the idea at
    that meeting was ZoneLabs and Symantec. We're in the process of crafting
    the message, action plan, and gathering support from Vendors.

    I'd like to make the call to all those in the media who follow this
    list, as your willingness to participate in this one day event will make
    all of the difference. What we need from the media is a willingness to
    take a message outside of the techie realm of your publications and into
    the more general public arena. Home page stories with links to the
    Personal Firewall Day website where we plan to have product listings,
    instructions, explanations, etc...

    Meanwhile, in furtherance of this goal I've prepared a listing of all
    Personal Firewall Products, software and hardware-based;

    http://www.ntbugtraq.com/pfp.asp

    I'd like you to take a look at it and let me know if I've missed a
    product. The page has the criteria I'm using to define Personal
    Firewalls, and several links for you to send me messages about
    additions, products that shouldn't be listed, etc...

    On November 10th I will put up a poll page so you can vote on the
    products listed, those you liked and those you thought didn't work.

    Once the Personal Firewall Day information is better organized I'll send
    you another note with more information on how you can participate.

    Cheers,
    Russ - NTBugtraq Editor

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