Theos-Talk Archives (July 2001 Message tt00000)

Thanks for highlighting the need for everyone to have a firewall.

___MKR___
At 01:30 PM 7/1/01 -0400, LoveChld11@aol.com wrote:



> Many users who have high speed connection, such as cable or dsl may be
> innocent victims of penetration and being used by zombie programs attacking
> other sites. Here is an interesting account anyone interested should read.
> There is also a mention effectiveness of firewalls.
>
> Bob: Not only high speed connections, but non-high speed
> connections such as 56K ,etc. Anybody who is using Win9x
> is vulnerable whether they have high speed connections or
> not. I've been using Zone Alarm for sometime. However, I
> didn't fully appreciate its total usefulness until this article.
>
> Thanks for posting it.
>
> Bob
>
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>
> Steve Gibson has a fascinating account of his experience with
> DDoS at http://grc.com/dos/grcdos.htm