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RE: Worms versus Bots
From: "Jonathan M. Slivko" <jonathan.slivko () earthlink net>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 12:49:05 -0400
Uh... they have. It's called a Snapgear card :) -- Jonathan -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On Behalf Of Chris Woodfield Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 12:42 PM To: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu Cc: Petri Helenius; Michael.Dillon () radianz com; nanog () merit edu Subject: Re: Worms versus Bots Simple solution...build the on-NIC firewall to not use uPnP, or at least require a password before changing rulesets. :) Seriously, this is such a stupidly simple solution that I'm amazed no one's attempted to make a product out of it yet. -C On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 12:21:29PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
On Tue, 11 May 2004 11:38:33 EDT, Chris Woodfield said:A better solution would be a NIC with a built-in SI
firewall...manageable from a host
app, but physically separate from the OS running on the PC.Gaak. No. ;) What's the point of a firewall, if the first piece of malware that does
manage
to sneak in (via a file-sharing program, or a webpage that installs
malware, or
an "ooh! Shiny!" email attachment) just does the network Plug-N-Play call
to
tell the firewall "Shield DOWN!"?
Current thread:
- Re: Worms versus Bots, (continued)
- Re: Worms versus Bots Jeff McAdams (May 05)
- Re: Worms versus Bots Jeff Workman (May 05)
- Re: Worms versus Bots Valdis . Kletnieks (May 05)
- Re: Worms versus Bots Michael . Dillon (May 06)
- Re: Worms versus Bots Paul Jakma (May 06)
- RE: Worms versus Bots David Schwartz (May 06)
- Re: Worms versus Bots Petri Helenius (May 06)
- Re: Worms versus Bots Chris Woodfield (May 11)
- Re: Worms versus Bots Valdis . Kletnieks (May 11)
- Re: Worms versus Bots Chris Woodfield (May 11)
- RE: Worms versus Bots Jonathan M. Slivko (May 11)
- Re: Worms versus Bots Chris Woodfield (May 11)
- Re: Worms versus Bots Paul Jakma (May 13)
- Re: Worms versus Bots Rick Ernst (May 11)
- RE: FW: Worms versus Bots Sean Donelan (May 04)
- RE: FW: Worms versus Bots Daniel Senie (May 04)
- RE: FW: Worms versus Bots Michael . Dillon (May 05)
- RE: FW: Worms versus Bots william(at)elan.net (May 05)
- Re: Worms versus Bots Matthew Crocker (May 05)