On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 05:47:28PM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote:
What's more interesting is the highest infection rate of all is for homes with laptop/mobile computers. Even when your home broadband modem/gateway has a firewall, when you take your laptop out of the home you lose what little protection you had. Then you bring the infection back inside and infect all your other home computers behind the gateway/firewall. The crunchy outside, soft-chewy inside rule applies to home computers too.
Perhaps, then, one should not be so quick to disparage software-based firewalls, resident on the computer itself. After all, there is really no such thing as a "hardware-based" firewall. bugtraq has plenty of reports of software bugs in firewalls resident on dedicated hardware. "Defense in depth" would suggest using both. -- Barney Wolff http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf I'm available by contract or FT, in the NYC metro area or via the 'Net.