Re: Unwanted presents

Ali Baba, having carefully considered all the angles, harangued us with the following:
On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:42:09 GMT, Michaelangelo commented


But they do. Some viruses are capable of disabling software firewalls.

They've got to get in and run first.

It's unlikely they could disable a hardware firewall.

Hardware firewalls stop incoming, they don't stop outgoing packets from unathorised programs - because they don't know which program the packet came from..

That's true, but lots of people are tricked (confused?) into letting them in.

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