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LowWaterMark
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join:2002-05-16
Wallingford, CT
| reply to BlitzenZeus
Re: GWF's, useless logs, and abuse desks.
It's unfortunate that in their haste to capture market share that the personal software firewall vendors have helped to build up so much hype regarding how their products have defended people's systems from so many "attacks".
People who have no other information source are going to believe it, of course, and if they do figure out how to send their alerts to their ISPs, then, well that's where this problem just keeps getting worse and worse.
There are millions of people with these types of firewalls and even if only a small percentage send in reports, I'm sure it overwhelms the abuse depts. Which means when there is a real need to report something, the chance of the serious report getting through to the right people is a lot less.
I guess that's why I prefer the use of joint reporting, like what myNetwatchman does. It they get recognized by more and more ISPs as only sending in serious reports then at least something can be done.
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BlitzenZeus
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join:2000-01-13
Beaverton, OR
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| Many of the programs are popular, but I think that users should demand full logs from their firewalls. If not boycott them, but many people do not even understand the logs so they don't care.
myNetwatchman is a useful service, and more people should use it if they are serious about reporting events.
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CalamityJane
Premium,VIP,MVM
join:2002-08-27
Eustis, FL
| said by BlitzenZeus  :
Many of the programs are popular, but I think that users should demand full logs from their firewalls. If not boycott them, but many people do not even understand the logs so they don't care.
myNetwatchman is a useful service, and more people should use it if they are serious about reporting events.
Even with full logs from firewalls most folks can't understand them, or even WHAT to report. I just use MyNetWatchman and keep these links handy for anyone who doesn't totally understand what is in those logs and wants to report (or even interpret them).
MyNetWatchman
»www.mynetwatchman.com/
DShield.org
»www.dshield.org/
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