In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gordon Bennett wrote:
> Right, Chris - but your arguments apply to a personal firewall too. The
> only solution is not to install malicious software, especially not with
> root rights.
>
OK, or *write* your own firewall. :-) You're right, of course-if you're
running untrusted programs, a firewall won't keep them from suddenly
blowing away every Office document on your computer, etc. (Which one of
the Outlook viruses replaced every file with certain extensions with a
copy of itself?) But I must confess, I rather despair of the user
population at large learning to do this...
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Chris Hoess
