Re: guidance sought


On 31-Mar-2006, Sebastian Gottschalk <seppi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

ArtDent wrote:

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".

That has changed 'lately'. Quite a few personal firewalls now do
checksums or some other method to make sure that the program(s) you
give permissions to acces the net, stays its pristine self.

That's why malware usually changes the software in memory, or only
changes its behaviour.

Yes, ok, _some_ malware can 'sneak' past _some_ personal firewalls,
but, having one is USUALLY better than not having one - FOR THE NEWER
USERS, whom are the ones usually asking the questions about this.

Almost any modern malware does.

But you're suggesting to keep users uneducated and being fed with
placebos.

I was trying to suggest that uneducated users should use a personal
firewall. If they educate themselves enough to not need one, then all the
better for everybody, but in the meantime, those users that are not that
knowledgeable about computers in general should use one - in my opinion,
which has been formed from reading computer magazines like PC-World and
PCmagazine, as well as a couple security newsletters I receive.
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