Re: Port blocking last resort in fight against virus

Mans Nilsson wrote:

Subject: Re: Port blocking last resort in fight against virus Date: Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 10:42:38PM -0400 Quoting Sean Donelan (sean@donelan.com):

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I think filters/firewalls are useful. I believe every computer should have one. I have several. I just disagree on who should control the filters.

Bingo!

Firewalls are a patch to broken network application architechture. If your applications would have been properly designed, you would not have the need for firewalls. They are for perimeter defence only anyway. Pete