13 Jun
2004
13 Jun
'04
10:11 a.m.
At 6:31 AM -0400 6/13/04, Sean Donelan wrote:
If they were, you would expect to see a difference between barns with doors and barns without doors. But in practice, we see people with and without firewalls with infected computers.
If you're asserting that having firewalls in the path doesn't have any impact on rate of infection, please provide a link to this data. Sure, I've even seen infected computers in rooms that don't (or should not have had) any connectivity, but that just means it is not a perfect world. Lot's of things make it through firewalls (email-based worms come to mind) but from what I've seen they are quite effective at protecting networks of otherwise helpless comes-out-of-the-box-wide-open PC's. /John