Re: Use XP Firewall with Router & Firewall?

From: Leythos (void_at_nowhere.lan)
Date: 03/09/05 

Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 03:09:29 GMT

On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 20:10:00 -0700, Bruce Chambers wrote:

> Leythos wrote:
>> On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 19:47:57 -0700, Bruce Chambers wrote:
>> [snip]
>>
>>> SP2's Firewall's most important virtues, I think, are it's improved
>>>compatibility with internal LANs and its configurability via group
>>>policies. Now, there's a simple, cheap tool that system admins can use
>>>to protect the LAN workstations from that occasional - but not rare
>>>enough - fool who manages to bypass the perimeter firewall and manually
>>>install some malware that could then spread throughout the LAN via
>>>shared drives.
>>
>>
>> Got news for you, but if you're in a LAN and using the SP2 firewall it's
>> already setup to allow access to shares and will not protect your computer
>> while it's in a LAN/Domain.
>>
>
>
> It's not 100% effective, but it's still better than nothing. It
> depends upon the specific type of threat, of course. Things like
> Blaster, Welchia, and Sasser, that are not spread via network shares,
> get stopped.

I agree, but the poster specifically implied that the SP2 firewall would
stop the spread of nasties that use file sharing. 

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