Re: Stealth vs. Blocked

From: Donut (none@none.com)
Date: 04/11/03 

From: Donut <none@none.com>
Date: 11 Apr 2003 02:54:59 GMT

Whoever <nobody@devnull.none> wrote in
news:Pine.LNX.4.44.0304101737480.707-100000@c941211-a:

> If you read www.grc.com, you will see that he promotes firewalls
> essentially to mitigate the effects installing a virus, trojan,
> spyware or other malware. Personally, I feel that:
>
> 1. Viruses, trojans, etc can disable software firewalls, so the
> effectiveness of a software firewall may be very limited.

First, the virus or trojan has to get inside, which is exactly what the
firewall prevents. Yes, it could get inside via an email, which is why you
need an up to date virus scanner running, and also to be very careful about
strange emails.

I use a Yahoo account for general email, and my private one is only
available to trusted people. Yet, I STILL ended up with a virus last year,
because I wasn't practicing what I just preached. My virus scanner at that
time didn't scan incoming POP3 mail, and I trusted Eudora to be virus safe,
which it certainly is not.

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