david raistrick wrote: >> Everyone doesn't suddenly get "owned" because there isn't a external >> firewall. Modern OS's default to secure. > > We clearly live and work in different worlds. Not to mention that > "we" are not the average consumers anymore. We were, in the days > before NAT (and SPI).
A quick mental review of my relatives indicates more than a few of them with a PC jacked into a cable modem. The only firewall is the one that comes with Windows. Sure, pretty much every company and +some+ residential service has a firewall fo some sort in place, but they aren't the automatic default that you are assuming. As you say, "live and work in different worlds." Reto -- R A Lichtensteiger r...@tifosi.com "A polar bear is just another way of expressing a rectangular bear"