Re: Do I need a firewall?
From: Wolfgang Ewert (w.ewert2002@gmx.de)Date: 10/18/02
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From: Wolfgang Ewert <w.ewert2002@gmx.de> Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 16:08:14 +0200
Hallo miner.-, you wrote:
> > Hello NeoSadist, you told us:
> i thought he was gonna say at the end
> "at this point the new security policy is ready so you can drop norton
> etc...."
Gonna but'n't gone.
> > http://www.blood-thirsty-barbarians.de/Firewall.html
>
> SW_PW are fine for home users who need them to catch potential RATs, Worms
There are better tools available: ad blocker, dial up watcher a.s.o.
> etc that go via the winsock, and that don't kill the security app in the
> first place klez, bionet etc.
> can't imagine how something like NIS could offer any real protection in a
> network evironment?
NIS? I don't use NIS in a windows(2k) (only in a Unix) environment, but
can be configured for NIS clients by an AD-Server.
The best way is hardening, and only using software with the latest known
security patches. There are many pages to do so:
http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/ f.e.
> in fact all i can think of is have it on each desktop to prevent any
> employees runing iffy progs, but if you have a policy then they shouldn't to
> able to do this should they.
That's ok.
Greetings
Wolfgang
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