You could stop with the subject line.
Symantec Firewall, Zone Alarm, the enhanced firewall in Vista, all
these things are sacks of worthless bile and rotting maggots.
Do not use these programs lest you be consumed by hate.
I might be a bit old fashioned but I've always thought the point of
firewalls was to stop software on other computers connecting to my
computer (or network but let's not run just yet).
Symantec seems to find this rather a narrow definition and is keen to
stop software on my computer connecting to
On 26/09/2007, Struan Donald str...@exo.org.uk wrote:
I might be a bit old fashioned but I've always thought the point of
firewalls was to stop software on other computers connecting to my
computer (or network but let's not run just yet).
Symantec seems to find this rather a narrow
Struan Donald wrote:
I might be a bit old fashioned but I've always thought the point of
firewalls was to stop software on other computers connecting to my
computer (or network but let's not run just yet).
Symantec seems to find this rather a narrow definition and is keen to
stop software
On 9/27/07, Michael G Schwern schw...@pobox.com wrote:
Yes, Windows has introduced the hateful concept of blocking OUTGOING ports to
prevent virus laden machines from spreading their ooze.
Or nosy software phoning home with juicy data about users' machines.
Which is also hateful.
Cheers,
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