Re: whats the point of windows firewall?

Maybe, but that didn't have anything to do with my post.

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Ted Zieglar
"Backup is a computer user's best friend."

Robert Moir wrote:

"Ted Zieglar" <teddy.z@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23e3VCqd3GHA.1796@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"Trying to control the behaviour of malware already allowed to run is nothing but a silly idea. It cannot work reliably and therefore provides a false sense of security."

I think that would come as a great surprise to Zone Labs, Symantec, F-Protect, McAfee, Kaspersky, Trend Micro, etc.

You think incorrectly. While none of the AV vendors make a big noise about this in their advertising blurb, you'll find all their engineers subscribe to the old "prevention is better than cure" philosophy for exactly this reason.

Once an operating system has been compromised you absolutely cannot guarantee that operating system is clean simply by using tools that are run inside the operating system environment. This is a well known tenet of dealing with malware and has been so for a very long time.

http://www.bitdefender.com/bd/site/presscenter.php?menu_id=25&n_id=58
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