JohnInSJ
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join:2003-09-22
San Jose, CA
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| "You're never really secure enough"
"but 99.44% of home user's aren't secure at all"
rather than attempt to "scare" people who have actually bothered to install some kind of firewall, how about making basic software firewalls integral to every home system, and enabled out of the box?
If 99% of the boxes on the net were at this "false sense of security" level, we'd not have nearly as much worm traffic, would we? |
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72276539
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join:2001-01-19
Atlanta, GA
| said by JohnInSJ  :
"but 99.44% of home user's aren't secure at all"
rather than attempt to "scare" people who have actually bothered to install some kind of firewall, how about making basic software firewalls integral to every home system, and enabled out of the box?
If 99% of the boxes on the net were at this "false sense of security" level, we'd not have nearly as much worm traffic, would we?
Ummm, this has been tried already and Microsoft got ripped a new arsehole about it.... so why should anyone bother putting a firewall on a system people will just disable.
Worm traffic would not be bad if people didn't open outlook messages with dangerous attachments and keep their systems updated.
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wtansill
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join:2000-10-10
Falls Church, VA
| said by 72276539 :
Ummm, this has been tried already and Microsoft got ripped a new arsehole about it.... so why should anyone bother putting a firewall on a system people will just disable.
Worm traffic would not be bad if people didn't open outlook messages with dangerous attachments and keep their systems updated.
I must not have gotten the memo -- could you please point to any info on M$ being ripped a new one for including firewall software?
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72276539
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join:2001-01-19
Atlanta, GA
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I ain't gonna search these forums.... but there are plenty of people who have ripped MS for including a firewall that wasn't enough or didn't work right or whatever.
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Jeremy341
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join:2000-01-06
localhost | People bitched because Microsoft's firewall didn't have outbound protection. But it did exactly what it was designed to do, and it did it very well. For SP2, Microsoft has added outbound protection as well. It's also on by default. |
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boogi man
join:2001-11-13
Apo, AE
clubs:  | reply to wtansill
I take it you don't remember the release of XP M$ enabled the firewall out of the box and was all kinda torn up about it due to the configuration if i remember correctly it wouldn't allow any traffic at all so they switched it off. |
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72276539
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join:2001-01-19
Atlanta, GA | reply to JohnInSJ
You dont remember correctly. |
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