On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:46:56AM -0400, Joshua Sahala wrote: > while i think many of us will welcome this, i am skeptical of what > the firewall will be 'enabled' to block, and how easy it will be > for the user to set-up rules (and hopefully there will be a sanity > check included so that 'permit in any' is not a valid option, but > then 'permit out any' should not be one either) > but still, it is a step...
It's a pretty rudimentary "firewall," I suspect enabling that by default is gonna piss off a hell of a lot of people (I'd venture to say it'll piss off more than a virus, since most are too clueless to get mad at that). John