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At 6:31 AM -0400 6/13/04, Sean Donelan wrote: >If they were, you would expect to see a difference between barns with >doors and barns without doors. But in practice, we see people with and >without firewalls with infected computers. If you're asserting that having firewalls in the path doesn't have any impact on rate of infection, please provide a link to this data. Sure, I've even seen infected computers in rooms that don't (or should not have had) any connectivity, but that just means it is not a perfect world. Lot's of things make it through firewalls (email-based worms come to mind) but from what I've seen they are quite effective at protecting networks of otherwise helpless comes-out-of-the-box-wide-open PC's. /John
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