Quentin Hartman (qhart...@gmail.com) typed this ... > On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Kurt Sussman <p...@merlot.com> wrote: > > > > This is why I use BlockHosts from aczoom.com... > > > > Blockhosts is useful, for sure, but I find it gets "false positives" in some > cases, which is obnoxious. If you really wanted defense in depth, you could > move to a non-standard port and run blockhosts. Personally though, I'd > prefer to avoid the attack rather than rely on a countermeasure. But that's > mostly a philospohical thing.
I agree, both defenses would be better than just one. However, I've never see a false positive with BlockHosts. I've only been running it for a couple years, though. #:) --Kurt -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Merlot Research Group, Inc kls[at]merlot.com "Quality is free, but only to those who are willing to pay heavily for it." (Lister, DeMarco: "Peopleware") _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug