Re: Agnitum Anti-Spware False Positive???

On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 Sebastian Gottschalk wrote:

Why do you actually thing that you'd need a "firewall"? I guess because
the media are spilling out a lot of marketing bullshit.

I still have Outpost on my machines, partly because I have a lifetime
subscription thanks to some early testing, but mainly because I'm
curious to see what's trying to open connections FROM my machines rather
than who might or might not be trying to get in.

It's not about security so much as curiosity. The router provides all
the inbound protection, and on the rare occasion that Outpost has
claimed to have stopped something nasty inbound it's invariably been a
false-positive.

I have to agree on the comments regarding the media, though. It's
getting completely out of hand. There's an advertisement running on UK
commercial radio at the moment (possibly in other territories as well)
and it goes like this (paraphrased, but pretty close to the original):

"Hackers. They're out there, waiting. Waiting to steal YOUR bank
details and credit card numbers. When you go online they can
have your personal information within seconds. But there is a
way to stop them in their tracks. McAfee..."

Honestly, if such misleading and scare mongering tactics were used to
market any other type of product the Advertising Standards people would
be on it like a shot.

--
Kev
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