Re: netstat makes a Firewall redundant?

From: Leythos (void@nowhere.com)
Date: 12/27/02 

From: Leythos <void@nowhere.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 20:10:25 GMT

In article <R50P9.472948$WL3.125307@rwcrnsc54>,
mhic_aoidh@hotmail.NïX.com.SPäM says...
> Taking a moment's reflection, Leythos mused:
> |
> | We get calls about once a
> | month with someone saying they were hacked, but since they were on dial-
> | up they thought they were safe :)
>
> How many of those people were actually hacked, though? I don't know how
> many corrupt files, HD crashes, weird system quirks, etc. I have seen blamed
> on a virus simply because the end user doesn't know anything about
> computers. Of course, they simply assume it is a virus, since a virus is
> their best possible culprit. Seems "I must have been hacked" has replaced
> "I must have had a virus."

When I get calls from them its about 90% user error, but that doesn't
detract from the fact that I've had dial-up users that were hacked. A
fully patched OS is only as good as the person using W98 and having Open
Shared on an unprotected internet account :)

Even the people that run W2K and XP, when developing web sites (they are
developers) run the risk, they expose/install IIS, etc, and don't
remember to lock it down.

It's not "if", but when, when you use an unsecured connection. 

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