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Message-ID: <Law11-OE17WLLgCnqOW00020bea@hotmail.com>
From: se_cur_ity at hotmail.com (morning_wood)
Subject: Microsoft urging users to buy Harware Firewalls
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard M. Smith" <rms@...puterbytesman.com>
To: <full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 5:04 PM
Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] Microsoft urging users to buy Harware
Firewalls
> I agree with Microsoft's recommendation for a hardware firewall on all
> home PCs. A Linksys NAT router box is selling for only $40 at Amazon as
> we speak. Besides protecting against the MSBlaster worm, a hardware
> firewall blocks those annoying Windows pop-up spam messages which have
> become so common lately. A hardware firewall also protects a shared
> Windows directory from being accessed from the Internet. My only
> question is why aren't NAT routers built into all cable and DSL modems.
>
re - Zone Alarm
buy a $40 hardware router. Software firewalls are not a =
security solution IMHO."
http://www.netsys.com/full-disclosure/2003/06/msg00074.html
*sigh*
wood
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