At 08:19 13.8.2003 -0400, you wrote: >Antti-Pekka Virjonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>At 07:46 13.8.2003 -0400, you wrote: >>>Yep, the worn installs itself directly through Port 135 - you don't have >>>to have any software at all running. If you have a real firewall (a >>>hardware firewall, *not* one of those software "firewalls") you're >>>generally safe. Most routers that do NAT seem to do the trick. >> >>Good software firewalls (not some ancient versions) work ok as well. > >Today's software firewall will be defeated by tomorrow's worm/virus (and >"today" and "tomorrow" can often be taken literally in this context). A >NAT box can be had for $50 US these days. > >BTW: It seems that many systems behind firewalls were hit when someone >got their laptop infected at home and then brought it in to work and >connected it to the network there. My S.O.'s university was probably >infected this way, I expect.
Yes, this is the problem with hardware firewalls. This is why I always run software firewalls on each machine as well as a hardware firewall at the internet connection point. Antti-Pekka --- * Antti-Pekka Virjonen * Fiskarsinkatu 7 D * GSM: +358 500 789 753 * * Computec Oy Turku * FIN-20750 Turku Finland * Fax: +358 10 264 0777 *
