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Re: "Default" Internet Service

  • From: Dave Howe
  • Date: Sun Jun 13 10:41:38 2004 
John Curran wrote:

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.
Actually, it doesn't - practical experience on a medium sized corporate network is that the firewall protects perfectly against TCP/IP worms - right up to the first time some senior management bozo plugs his laptop onto the network that his teen son was playing online games with all last night... and has no effect at all on email or website/browser 'sploits.