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

[Martin]

Alan Pope wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 17:50:45 +0000, Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk> wrote:
>>Alan Pope wrote:
>>
>>>A firewall would stop them getting in,
>>
>>In the first place, no.
> 
> I didn't mean that. I meant getting in as in accessing the opened port.

If there are no services running, then there are no open ports to access 
from the outside in the first place, even before finding anything open 
to exploit.

And then for whatever exploits of your web browser, a firewall wouldn't 
be of any help because your web browser asked for whatever pages and 
your firewall must be open to such requests to let you surf.

In this scenario, the firewall is superfluous...


Much easier to have client software with the known security holes 
patched, and to not download and execute malware.

Regards,
Martin

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