On Sonntag, 23. November 2003 07:21, Chris wrote: > For those who dont know a pc can be cracked in as little as five minutes > even on a dialup.
Yupp. With a wrong configured firewall it takes one minute. If the lowbrow user installs a firewall, it is an open door. If only trusted services listening on a dialin interface, why the need for a firewall? It make no sense to block ports where nothing is listening on. If someone openes a port, i hope he knows what he is doing. If he wants that this port is listening to the world, he has also open it on the firewall also. The firewall is no protection in this case. The only reason i can see if a user starts services without knowing what he is doing. And such a user is not able to handle a firewall propertly anyway. So give me a reason why a dialin user should use a firewall? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
