bugtraq - Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause

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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 16:21:11 +0100
From: "adf--at--Code511.com" <adf@...e511.com>
To: <tlarholm@...x.com>
Cc: <full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com>, <ntbugtraq@...tserv.ntbugtraq.com>,
   <bugtraq@...urityfocus.com>
Subject: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause

more than raising awareness it looks like a corporate marketing 
operation from majors:
"Where to Get a Personal Firewall
Personal firewalls are available from several vendors, including these 
sponsors of Personal Firewall Day:
	• 	McAfee Security
	• 	Microsoft
	• 	Sygate
	• 	Zone Labs"

is that education?

Other other hand firewall day seems like being used by some people to 
distribute new toys? I got more than 20 000 ms sql  worm propagation in 
the ids log today.

Come on guys try to objective for one day, next time do a copy/paste of 
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Security/Firewalls/Products/ 
. That'd be education and not another useless corporate spam to sell 
products.

my 0.158 euro

deepquest
"Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appelant"



On 15 janv. 04, at 02:21, <tlarholm@...x.com> wrote:

> I just wanted to remind everybody that tomorrow is Personal Firewall 
> Day.
>
> http://www.personalfirewallday.org/
>
> The Personal Firewall Day is a campaign designed to raise awareness 
> about the dangers we face without a personal firewall. Security 
> experts such as yourself are encouraged to use the occasion of 
> Personal Firewall Day to share your expertise and advice with your 
> lesser technologically skilled friends and family, and help get them 
> secured by installing a personal firewall - this could be as simple as 
> helping them turn on the XP firewall. Direct them to the website where 
> they can learn more about personal firewalls and other layers of 
> protection.
>
> Compromised end-user machines affect us all and the Internet as a 
> whole when they are used as zombies for DDoS networks or proxies by 
> criminal spammers, and your personal effort can help remedy this.
>
> PFD is a direct result of the discussions that originated from the 
> NTBugtraq Retreat '03, and would not have been possible without the 
> dedication and hard work put into the project by Paul Robertson, 
> director of risk assessment with TruSecure and the original proponent 
> of the idea.
>
>
>
> Regards
> Thor Larholm
> Senior Security Researcher
> PivX Solutions
> 24 Corporate Plaza #180
> Newport Beach, CA 92660
> http://www.pivx.com
> thor@...x.com
> 949-231-8496
> PivX defines “Proactive Threat Mitigation”. Get a FREE Beta Version of 
> Qwik-Fix
> <http://www.qwik-fix.net>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Full-Disclosure - We believe in it.
> Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
>

Alexandre Da Fonseca aka Deepquest
Chief Technology Officer
"Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appelant"
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more than raising awareness it looks like a corporate marketing
operation from majors:

"<bold><fontfamily><param>Arial</param>Where to Get a Personal Firewall

</fontfamily></bold><fontfamily><param>Arial</param>Personal firewalls
are available from several vendors, including these sponsors of
Personal Firewall Day:</fontfamily>

<fontfamily><param>Arial</param>	<color><param>0000,005A,0127</param>•
	McAfee Security

	• 	Microsoft

	• 	Sygate

	• 	Zone Labs"


is that education?


Other other hand firewall day seems like being used by some people to
distribute new toys? I got more than 20 000 ms sql  worm propagation
in the ids log today.


Come on guys try to objective for one day, next time do a copy/paste
of http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Security/Firewalls/Products/
. That'd be education and not another useless corporate spam to sell
products.


my 0.158 euro</color></fontfamily>


deepquest

"Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appelant"




On 15 janv. 04, at 02:21, <<tlarholm@...x.com> wrote:


<excerpt>I just wanted to remind everybody that tomorrow is Personal
Firewall Day.


http://www.personalfirewallday.org/


The Personal Firewall Day is a campaign designed to raise awareness
about the dangers we face without a personal firewall. Security
experts such as yourself are encouraged to use the occasion of
Personal Firewall Day to share your expertise and advice with your
lesser technologically skilled friends and family, and help get them
secured by installing a personal firewall - this could be as simple as
helping them turn on the XP firewall. Direct them to the website where
they can learn more about personal firewalls and other layers of
protection.


Compromised end-user machines affect us all and the Internet as a
whole when they are used as zombies for DDoS networks or proxies by
criminal spammers, and your personal effort can help remedy this.


PFD is a direct result of the discussions that originated from the
NTBugtraq Retreat '03, and would not have been possible without the
dedication and hard work put into the project by Paul Robertson,
director of risk assessment with TruSecure and the original proponent
of the idea.




Regards 

Thor Larholm 

Senior Security Researcher 

PivX Solutions 

24 Corporate Plaza #180 

Newport Beach, CA 92660 

http://www.pivx.com 

thor@...x.com 

949-231-8496 

PivX defines “Proactive Threat Mitigation”. Get a FREE Beta Version of
Qwik-Fix 

<<http://www.qwik-fix.net> 


_______________________________________________

Full-Disclosure - We believe in it.

Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html


</excerpt> 

Alexandre Da Fonseca aka Deepquest

Chief Technology Officer

"Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appelant"

-------------------------------------------------------------

Code511                                 work:+33-14225-8585

http://www.code511.com                  cell:+33-66258-5111

PGP DH/DSS http://www.code511.com/pgp   fax :+33-14225-8590

-------------------------------------------------------------