full-disclosure - January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause

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Message-ID: <7364D30B-476E-11D8-B9ED-0003939CDB32@code511.com>
From: adf at code511.com (adf--at--Code511.com)
Subject: 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
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Alexandre Da Fonseca aka Deepquest
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