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

[Martin]

Martin Garton wrote:
> 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.

Granted, a firewall would make this 'less easy' for some cases...


The user still has to be very gullible to actively install and run the 
malware in the first place!

Cheers,
Martin

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