Port blocking last resort in fight against virus

Wed Aug 13 08:00:56 UTC 2003

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 at 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.
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>Bingo! 
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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