From: "FromTheRafters" <erratic@nomail.afraid.org>

> David H. Lipman wrote:
>> From: "FromTheRafters"<erratic@nomail.afraid.org>
>>
>>>> Which provides close to zero protection against the most common type of
>>>> current infections, the rogue security software installers.
>>>
>>> The idea is to not install them. If you go around installing malware, no firewall is
>>> going to save you.
>>
>> The vast majority use Social Engineering which is the human exploit.
>>
> Depending on what gets downloaded, the firewall is
> already defeated.
>
> I think gaz was implying that you need a better
> firewall to detect lame 'phone home' attempts.
> I am of the opinion that you've already lost the
> race when you have malware running behind the
> firewall.

Yes. The only hope is that the FireWall detects unusual outgoing packets and blocks
it/them.


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Dave
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