From: Greg Merritt (gregm_at_its.berkeley.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 12 2003 - 12:58:12 PDT
At 12:49 PM -0700 9/12/03, Alexander Brown wrote:
>I would be cautious with this approach; we have had multiple reports in
>EECS of compromised XP systems that were unpatched, but "running the
>firewall since before they were ever put on the network". I cannot
>attest to the accuracy of the reports, but the fact that there have been
>multiple reports makes me nervous about recommending this as a solution.
>
>--alex
I find that sometimes users believe that a certain security
element will protect them from all things nasty -- e.g., "I had
Norton Antivirus installed years ago, I can't get that worm thing,
can I?" or "I have a firewall so my computer's safe from everything,
right?"
Just chiming in and stating the obvious here, I guess, but
users need to have all bases covered and stay up-to-date...
-Greg
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