Re: I need a decent firewall

From: Lisa (noreply_at_noreply.com)
Date: 03/09/04 

Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 13:05:15 -0500

gmv wrote:
> Thanks for the tip.
> It is interesting to note that if you
> want to have a piece of spyware you simply
> need to disguise it as some kind of
> security software.

You strike me as a tad trollish. You keep making these claims about
firewalls that are either exaggerations or blatantly not true.

> Why can't a firewall be made for a PC
> that never needs to be updated since a
> firewall does not depend upon any kind of
> data files.

Because no matter how good someone makes a program, they can't always be
sure that it's 100% vulnerability free. And companies who make programs
like to add new features.

> If I were microsoft and
> I seriously had the computing publics welfare
> in mind I would include a decent firewall
> amongst other things as a normal part of the OS,
> I would make something that could not be attacked
> by any other means than a hand grenade or something
> like it.

They are changing their firewall to have more features. I don't know
whether it will be "decent" or not. Only time will tell.

> I will take a look at sygate if it is not too expensive
> but I am really suspicious of any kind of security
> software today really being security software
> that is for my own security and not societies security.
> You see, I consider my own society to be my single
> worst enemy, That which is closest to me.

I'm sorry.

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