[Nottingham] Ubuntu/firewalls (lack of)/wine

Martin Garton martin at wrasse.demon.co.uk
Tue Dec 21 17:43:45 GMT 2004


On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Martin wrote:

> Discuss: Why would a firewall be needed or wanted?

If some rogue program or trojan ended up being run by a user it could
easily listen on a port for incoming commands. A firewall could prevent
this.

-- 
Martin





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