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Re: Port blocking last resort in fight against virus

  • From: Petri Helenius
  • Date: Wed Aug 13 04:04:46 2003 
Mans Nilsson wrote:
Subject: Re: Port blocking last resort in fight against virus Date: Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 10:42:38PM -0400 Quoting Sean Donelan ([email protected]):


I think filters/firewalls are useful. I believe every computer should
have one. I have several. I just disagree on who should control the
filters.

Bingo!

Firewalls are a patch to broken network application architechture. If your applications
would have been properly designed, you would not have the need for firewalls. They
are for perimeter defence only anyway.

Pete