Re: not listening

On 2006-06-23, Frank <franknews@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
if I have a computer that is not listening to ANY port, would I need a
If you have NO sex, do you need a condom?

Anyway, depends on your understanding of "firewall".

Having no open ports doesn't necessary mean you are safe.

If there are no open ports, no outside program (read: malware) can
initiate a connection to this machine. But if the malware is already
loaded on that machine, there is nothing in its way to start a
connection from there. You get the picture...

HTH
Uli

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deserve neither liberty nor safety, and will lose both."
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