Re: guidance sought

ArtDent <par@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The WindowsXP firewall only blocks incoming, it does not even look at
outgoing, pretty much what your router already does.

*sigh* - the "outgoing" argument again. Do you have anything new to add to
this discussion, "ArtDent"?

Again, there seems to be a very vocal group here saying to turn off / do
not use software firewalls, I just wonder if that has anything to do with
the million machine bot-net that was just 'discovered'. When someone
tells me to turn off my firewall, I _seriously_ wonder about their
motivation for such advice.

It seems, that you're trying to replace arguments you don't have with weak
allegations. But for that point:

Whom should be trusted - a person, who writes with full name here, and who
easily can be found in real life, or an anonymous, who even is too chicken-
hearted to stand behind what he or she is publicizing?

forgetting that everyone that comes here is not up to their level in
understanding this stuff.

Please decide, what you want to allegate. Your two accusations are
conflicting.

So, with the router and XP firewall on, you should be fairly well covered
from unrequested incoming stuff, but if anything is already on, or somehow
gets onto your machine, they will not even blink an eye when all of a
sudden your machine is sending out 1,000 emails an hour. Actually, for
that, even other firewall programs will let them go out _if_ you have
given the sending program permission, but the router and XP firewall will
not even ask.

And the "other" firewalls won't, too, if the malware is not completely dumb
and does not use one of the well-known possibilities to communicate ignoring
any "Personal Firewall".

VB.
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