I agree except for your last point. The default build of Outlook is prone to virus transmission but once SP2 is installed there's very little it can do as it prevents access to any kind of executable (which is really anoying from a development point of view).
-----Original Message----- From: jon hall [mailto:jonhall@;ozline.net] Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 1:34 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Firewall Sigh...this is all Steve Gibson's fault. If your computer gets infected by a trojan. No firewall makes you safe. It's a pointless battle. It's an extremely trivial script to use Internet Explorer to send and receive data, right past ZA or the new Black Ice app protection. IE is the first thing you let have access to the internet right?......... The most effective defense against trojan's and viruses in general is to not use Outlook. Outlook/OE is the number one vector for attack these days by a wide margin. -- jon mailto:jonhall@;ozline.net Friday, November 8, 2002, 1:02:55 PM, you wrote: HP> The one article I read claimed that Black Ice was ineffective HP> against zombies - but it may be dated now... HP> Patrick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting.
