- Firewall
- Posted by David Bradley on March 16th, 2005
Whenever the subject of Firewalls appears, then there is a flood of messages on how good this, and
any another "Free" software product is, and maybe they are the best thing since sliced bread. But
if one wishes to **buy** a hardware or software solution what is there out there for the domestic
user? In this context I am thinking particularly of cable modem users.
David Bradley
- Posted by Ronny on March 16th, 2005
"David Bradley" <trolley@spamless.co.uk> wrote in message
news:597h31lbhpk51iev08n2s6flo2mdgqhv21@4ax.com...
The best firewall there is money cant buy, it's you!!
Windows updates + DUMETER + Netstat + good AV is all you need, and the
ability to not click "yes" to every box that pops up. 
)
Ronny
- Posted by agree2pay4uce@spam.vlaad.co.uk on March 16th, 2005
In article <597h31lbhpk51iev08n2s6flo2mdgqhv21@4ax.com>,
trolley@spamless.co.uk (David Bradley) wrote:
Firebrick - www.firebrick.co.uk
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Wasting Bandwidth since 1981
- Posted by Dave Stanton on March 17th, 2005
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 21:00:15 +0000, David Bradley wrote:
Cheap pc and Linux
Dave
--
For what we are about to balls up may common sense prevent us doing it
again
in the future!!
- Posted by johnydeath on March 17th, 2005
Dave Stanton wrote:
cheap pc (even a 486) with 2x NIC and smoothwall
http://www.smoothwall.org/
- Posted by Bob Eager on March 17th, 2005
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 06:22:20 UTC, Dave Stanton <me@privacy.net> wrote:
Or, if you want a real UNIX: cheap PC and FreeBSD!
- Posted by Conor on March 17th, 2005
In article <pan.2005.03.17.06.22.20.890839@privacy.net>, Dave Stanton
says...
than a Windows box.
--
Conor
Windows & Outlook/OE in particular, shipped with settings making them
as open to entry as a starlet in a porno. Steve B
- Posted by Anthony Edwards on March 17th, 2005
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 21:00:15 +0000, David Bradley <trolley@spamless.co.uk>
wrote:
I use and recommend:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/...031/index.html
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Anthony Edwards
easynet Ltd - Manchester
http://www.uk.easynet.net
anthony.edwards@uk.easynet.net
- Posted by Sean on March 17th, 2005
On the Wed, 16 Mar 2005 22:13:47 -0000, Ronny uttered forth the
following...
- Posted by Dave Stanton on March 17th, 2005
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 13:31:42 +0000, Conor wrote:
And your point or do you just like making silly statements
DAve
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For what we are about to balls up may common sense prevent us doing it
again
in the future!!
- Posted by ian on March 17th, 2005
David Bradley wrote:
price than the excellent cisco pix .
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- Posted by Colin Wilson on March 17th, 2005
Got any links to validate this comment ?
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- Posted by Mark McIntyre on March 17th, 2005
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 18:53:25 +0000, Dave Stanton <me@privacy.net>
wrote:
if true, the point would be that just because its a linux box, doesn't
mean you should get complacent and assume you're immune from nasties.
- Posted by johnydeath on March 17th, 2005
Mark McIntyre wrote:
It is true, depending on the vulnerability. There are quite a few
Linux/Unix vulnerabilites easily exploitable
Its just a subjective comment.
- Posted by Bob Eager on March 17th, 2005
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 13:31:42 UTC, Conor <conor@conorturton.com> wrote:
But he didn't say "Get Linux because it's more secure than Windows".
He was merely pointing out that, with a cheap PC (practically any
Pentium, for example) and Linux, one can make a good firewall.
- Posted by Dave Stanton on March 18th, 2005
Yes, but now I realise who the poster of the original reply was. nuff said.
Dave
Dave
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For what we are about to balls up may common sense prevent us doing it
again
in the future!!
- Posted by Sean on March 18th, 2005
On the Thu, 17 Mar 2005 20:24:13 -0000, Colin Wilson uttered forth the
following...
Just go look at the RedHat website and see how many critical updates
there are. Windows gets all the press but both have their flaws.
- Posted by Sean on March 18th, 2005
On the Fri, 18 Mar 2005 06:26:36 +0000, Dave Stanton uttered forth the
following...
thread.
- Posted by Colin Wilson on March 18th, 2005
A whole 4 "critical" of which two are for media players, and two are for
Mozilla / Firefox (which are essentially the same) - these aren`t likely
to have the same knock-on effect as, say, DCOM...
Even with the kernel fixes, most flaws are very specific to a particular
circumstance, and would need someone trying to actively exploit them.
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- Posted by Mark McIntyre on March 18th, 2005
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 20:07:36 -0000, Colin Wilson <void@btinternet.com>
wrote:
Depends. Browser and MP holes are much more likely to be encountered
by average users, don't you think?
Last time I checked, this wasn't comp.linux.advocacy or
comp.windows.zealotry.
