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

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Message-ID: <E1AhGuY-0007lH-00@smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net>
From: rms at computerbytesman.com (Richard M. Smith)
Subject: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause

I run a NAT router box at my house which acts as a hardware firewall for my
home LAN.  It protects me from the following problems:

   - Messenger popup spam
   - RPC worms
   - Accidentally sharing a disk directory with the world
   - Future security holes in the Windows networking software

This type of firewall seems like a bargain to me.  I would use one of these
router boxes even it I had only one computer to connect to the Internet.

Richard 

-----Original Message-----
From: full-disclosure-admin@...ts.netsys.com
[mailto:full-disclosure-admin@...ts.netsys.com] On Behalf Of Brandon
Butterworth
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 2:10 PM
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com
Subject: [Full-Disclosure] Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the
cause

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

Yuk.

Whilst I support people taking care of their security I rank personal
firewalls on the same level as virus detection

They don't fix the real problems and lead to a dependency culture of
constant upgrades (if people bother) and alternative vendor sales fud

....