thank you for throwing the light on my problems and helped me to feel better (regarding firewalls) ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 9:44 PM Subject: Re: questions
> On December 27, zohar enlightened our ignorance thusly: > > CALDERA says that it providing a solution of UNIX and LINUX integrating it. > > What other than networking is the same between this two OS. > > Runs Linux on Unixware using LKP, Linux Kernel Personality. > Essentially, you can use all those great Linux apps without > modification on your Unixware box. > > > I have heard many times in last few days that normal firewall can only > > blocks the packets that come from Windows while they are not effective on > > the packets that come from other OS. Can you give me some more knowledge > > related to it. Which Firewall can handle this kind of situation. > > I don't know who told you this, but it's just plain wrong. A TCP/IP > packet doesn't much care what OS is came from or what OS it is going > to. OS-neutrality is the whole point of the TCP/IP protocols. > > > On one site it was mentioned that an e-mail can be multiparty other than > > pure HTML or text and this are more likely to contain ActiveX and scripting > > like more powerful programs which are made able to run some malicious code. > > Please say something more about this and which mail application can better > > handle this. > > Beats me. > > > What is UPX file compressor of Visual Basic. > > I have no idea. Perhaps it is yet another proprietary Microsoft > method for compressing files. > > Kurt > -- > Klein bottle for rent -- inquire within. > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
