Re: choosing personal firewall ?

From: Khayman (khayman.nopigbottom@bigfoot.com)
Date: 04/18/02 

From: "Khayman" <khayman.nopigbottom@bigfoot.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 13:35:36 GMT

"Wolfgang Kueter" <wolfgang@shconnect.de> skrev i meddelandet
news:a9mh7j$u9p$1@news.shlink.de...
> Khayman wrote:
>
> > (and do try to ignore "Wolfgang" - he really must have some mental
> > problem)
>
> If you like to call it 'a mental problem' rather to believe technical
> documents, TCP/IP principles, source code analysis etc. than marketing
> buzzwords and various 'security by obscurity concepts', just feel free
> to do so. The technical facts are a bit different however.

That was a bit harsh, yes, but recommending anyone to run a windows box with
god knows how services and programs hidden from view without a firewall
is... well... a little odd.
He wanted a "personal firewall" - and if he doesn't have the money, time or
knowledge to setup some hardware solution - then a "personal firewall" is
far better than running "on luck" with MS's patches.....

>
> To end this discussion:
>
> - Have you looked at the source code of the products you recommend?
> - Have you looked at the source code of the operating system you use?
> - Has a wider community whom you can trust done that if you are not
> able to do it yourself?

We are talking Windows and firewalls for Windows here - so no sourcecode,
no - And?
I didn't choose his OS...

> Did you answer 'no' to one or more question?
>
> So how can you tell that either the operating system or the 'firewall'
> is secure or improves security?
>

Running a portscan on a newly installed win2k server with and without any
"personal firewall" gives quite a clear picture...

Khay.

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