Re: Most Comatible Firewall with ICS

From: RAV (rav@nospamplease.com)
Date: 12/24/02 

From: "RAV" <rav@nospamplease.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 07:20:37 -0500

Maybe I missed something, but your response to a simple question seemed
rather harsh!!!

"Duane Arnold" <darnold92@Insightbb.com> wrote in message
news:e1QL9.407802$NH2.29311@sccrnsc01...
> >I follow this group, but I confess that I don't understand this firewall
> > stuff. I also have noticed that you seem to be a big advocate of Black
Ice
> > I recognize that the statement refers to the MS firewall included with
XP
> > and I know that ICF doesn't block outgoing traffic but why shouldn't
this
> > statement apply to any other software firewall?
> >
>
> Just speaking from my experience with this. Just the other day, a guy I
> work with asked me to download this Oracle install software which he
> couldn't download He's got a dial-up at home and he has had a lot of
issues
> trying to download the files at work. So, I downloaded the files onto my
> laptop and took it to work.
>
> Although my company has the Raptor firewall which is good at not letting
> things in, once you get inside the firewall or on the network, it's
another
> story. It's a damn jungle out there on my company's network. My work
machine
> has gotten a couple of viruses and worms I have had to deal with. I got
> something now on the machine where I have got to give the machine back to
> Tech Support and have them wipe it out. But I can't right now, because I
am
> on this heavy project and anyway, it's not stopping me from doing my
work.
>
> So, in order to get the files to the guy, I have got to connect my laptop
> to the network. As soon as I do that, here comes the other machines on
the
> network looking for fresh meat on the table. I have got to do file sharing
> so that the guy can get the files, and I have got to ACCEPT at the very
> least an IP. I am glad I got BID's IDS/firewall knocking that *** down.
>
> Some times I have got to bring my work laptop home on the weekend to do
work
> and I VPN into the job with it connected to the router. That's the
> DUANE_ARNOLD machine up there in the post I made showing the BlackIce
> firewall log from my desktop machine doing it's job --- log related to
> another story.
>
> Yeah, I like BID, because it's severing me well. I dare any one of you
> Bastards talking your BS about BID to bring your machine and connect that
> Bitch to my company's network. Yeah, let me see how well that Bitch is
> protected!
>
> By the way, I didn't get the right files and I got to do it again! That's
> why Wayne! ;-)
>
> WTF
>
> You MotherFuckers! ;-)
>
> Duane :)
>
>
>