Linked by Jeremy LaCroix on Wed 13th Aug 2003 16:59 UTC
I am a "Technologist", a Technology enthusiast that is usually the one that is called should a major catastrophe strike an end user. My saga of computer rescues becomes a plot that is ever so thickening, if not only for the fact that's it's becoming incredibly easy for hackers and malicious code writers these days to invade personal property to find, seek, and destroy. Each year, virus and hacker threats increase, and in addition the damage trail left behind is something of a problem. Not to forget, a majority of "PC Panic" cases I've come across are often times the same common, "major" problem.
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People saying "I never run AV in the back and I don't feel the need to run a software firewall" are being very careless and will be vulnerable as butter in direct sun.
This is because sonner or later they will install some shareware or freeware on the PC they use for the internet. This apps open many doors that one does not know about, even if you spend time checking wich app is opening what or if it loads on start up (as a hidden - from the user - service). By using a good firewall - a firewall that starts before ANY other service starts - you are safer.
As for software firewalls that is a must today. There are so many win32 machines connected that hackers (or crackers to be accurate) devote more time learning win32 vulnrabilities.
Linux/BSD is not safe either without a software firewall, just think how many users run apache without knowing, for example; Linux just doesn't receive as much crackers' time.
If you want to get your sensitive files secured put them all on a non shared OS file for a start, encryot it. And buy a good software firewall for windows (You will be amazed by security logs reading), at least for windows, (linux/BSD distros normally have one but very poor stuff if you don't use default, /etc/*???*, and difficult (time consuming) if yoou don't know how to configure it ...
http://www.ebcvg.com/articles.php?id=104
comes to this conclusion:
Conclusion:-
More and more application that you choose to run, the more you put your network into danger
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