Re: The Coalition against Personal Firewalls

zzy <anon@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Are personal firewalls really useless? If I disable the PFW on my laptop
and connect it directly to the Internet, will all those port scans fail,
and nothing pernicious ever get into my system?

Yes. Yes. If you're not offering services or just using the
Windows-Firewall.

I doubt it.

Try it. BTW: Port scans are no attacks.

Yours,
VB.
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