<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 28/11/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Karl Lattimer</b> <<a href="mailto:karl@qdh.org.uk">karl@qdh.org.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
OK, this is bad advice ^^ see bad advice... The firewall in windows is<br>the only thing stopping the slammer worm and a bunch of others. Don't<br>switch it off because it is added bloat!!!! It isn't, the standard
<br>windows firewall is an adequate solution its not ideal but it WORKS for<br>the purposes it is intended, protecting windows' penchant for opening<br>ports on LAN networks.<br><br></blockquote></div><br>If its a worm the virus protection should have stopped it. A Firewall will not stop a worm.
<br><br>A <b>firewall</b> is a dedicated <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_appliance" title="Computer appliance">appliance</a>, or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software" title="Software">software</a>
running on another computer, which inspects network traffic passing
through it, and denies or permits passage based on a set of rules.<br><br>see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewall_(networking)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewall_(networking)</a><br><br>The windows "Firewall" does do something useful in that it stop certain types of Spyware, Viruses, Worms etc but it is not a Firewall the the original sense of the work and there is no reason why a too calling its self Spyware protection will not in fact do the same job.
<br><br><br>Peter Childs<br><br>