[arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

Wed Oct 29 03:21:52 UTC 2003

> On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 18:28:55 CST, Adam Selene <nospam at vguild.com>  said:
>
> > A probably configured firewall will protect a machine against
> everything but
> > it's user, and therein lies a problem you will likely never solve.
>
> The real problem is that we have an environment where the malware
> can figure
> out how to disable the firewall but the user can't.

Hopefully, one day software will be good enough the user won't have to be
smart.
And even clever malware will need some good luck to do its job.

DJ