Be still my heart! You are "saying" what a lot of people are "thinking".
OTOH Have we climbed the first few stairs in the LONG stairway to "near
perfect security". Or am I dreaming here.
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*> Personal firewalls are useful and should be considered by any user who
*> directly connects to hostile networks, such as the Internet. They have a
*> role to play in both the corporate and SOHO (Small Office/Home Office)
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*The problem with all the products you listed is that they are completely
*ineffective against a whole lot of typical attacks. Zonelab, Ice, etc,
*all don't bother to protect the stack. Why bother if someone can blow up
*your machine with a simple stack attack and your so-called "firewall"
*never sees it?
*
*The personal firewalls out on the market today are substantially worthless
*tools designed to take advantage of a paranoid, uneducated market base
*that can't tell the difference between when they're really being protected
*and when they're not. They take advantage of the people who say "Ooh we
*need security on our computer so Johnny doesn't become a hacker" and have
*no idea what the software they're getting does and does not protect
*against.
*
*What's the substantial difference between SOHO firewalls and corporate
*server-based firewalls? My guess is that one actually protects the
*machine. But the btter questions is, should there be a difference? I
*don't think so.
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*.phonix.
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