[MLB-WIRELESS] Firewall rule?

[Alan]

Certainly is...
I have found out vulnerabilities in my browser (IE and Firefox) using 
Zonealarm whilst surfing hacker sites on the internet.
This firewall intercepts outbound connections  from the PC alerting me 
that the browser has pulled down the wrong piece of active-x, java or 
whatever. It has saved my pc twice.

Virus scanner updates and OS / browser patches only arive on the scene 
after the offence has happened.


Alan




Datec wrote:

>Is that the sound of a can of worms being opened. :)
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>[mailto:melbwireless-bounces at wireless.org.au]On Behalf Of Jesse McNelis
>Sent: Tuesday, 15 August 2006 7:05 PM
>Cc: Melbourne Wireless
>Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Firewall rule?
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>On 8/15/06, Mark Aitken <nodegxt at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
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>>Hi Ppl,
>>
>>as most of us do, I run a firewall on all computers connected to my
>>network.  I have recently installed Tiny Personal Firewall on my Win2K
>>server
>>box that is online on the net 24/7.  This does mainly torrent xfers.
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>I still don't really get the large mainstream use of personal software
>firewalls. They really don't make much sense, waste resources and
>create another process running with adminstrator privileges that could
>be expolitable. It seems simpler to disabled the network services that
>you aren't using.
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>Firewalls are for dividing networks up and that's what they should be
>used for. But It's your network so you should do what you think is
>best.
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