* "Victor B. Gonzalez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello Carsten,
[ personal firewalls ] >> Who attacks your PC and how? > I can easily attack your pc starting at this very moment... Please attack me, Victor. Try it as hard as you can. And please explain us how a personal firewall could prevent me from being attacked by you. And, how are you going to attack me? Did it work? >> What do you expect from your personal firewall? > Protection from stupidity, What do you mean with "stupidity"? An example? > trojans, A trojan horse is a program that *you* install on your computer. If such a trojan horse runs on your system you have lost. Period. A trojan horse could deactivate a personal firewall (especially under Win9x operation systems, or under a WinNT when you are logged in as "admin"), manipulate files, ... A personal firewall can *not* protect you from installing a trojan horse. I would recommend to be more careful with installing "strange" tools. > viruses, a virus is a program that *you* install on your computer. A personal firewall can not stop you from executing "strange" attachments. Just one example: trojan horses could easily communicate through the "firewall" by starting IE with an Url like http://www.someserver.tld/bla?a=secret_information_from_victors_pc... This is the way Realplayer tunnels through firewalls. > scans, do you mean portscans. I don't see any problem in being portscanned. That's the internet :-) > enhanced privacy, I don't see how. An example? > etc... Sorry, Victor, could you explain that in a more, erm, technical way? >> How could a personal firewall help? > Remove the door to your house tonight and never put it back, > then lie a fully loaded shotgun and all of your valuables at > the entrance with a note attached "To whom this may concern, > please shoot me, or just take the money and the shotgun and > go, I DON'T CARE!". Funny, but FUD. > You know you're personal preference about your own security > is entirely an opinion and nothing more... You shouldn't > influence any body's decision on security with ignorance... Victor, no, no and no. I am not influencing anyone. I am asking you again: please describe a case in which a personal firewall protects you from being "hacked". a) Don't offer any services if you don't really need them. So there will be no open ports. b) Always install the latest security patches for your software. c) Don't install software that you don't trust a 100 per cent. d) Don't use IE, OE. e) ... -- Best regards, Carsten ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
