On 10 Apr 2005 at 7:53, Johannes Gebauer wrote:

> David W. Fenton schrieb:
> > If it's blocking outgoing ports, it's acting as a firewall.
> > 
> > It's pretty simple.
> 
> Exactly. But it's not blocking outgoing ports. It's blocking 
> applications. That's the difference I was trying to explain.

It's monitoring ports to know what software is trying to use outgoing 
ports, and then blocking those applications from using those ports. 
That's what any decent software firewall does, application by 
application.

Maybe you don't know much about software firewalls, so that you don't 
recognize one when you see it?

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David W. Fenton                        http://www.bway.net/~dfenton
David Fenton Associates                http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc

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