Allow Me to Let You In on a REALLY Big Security Secret...

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Re: Allow Me to Let You In on a REALLY Big Security Secret...

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.security.firewalls, in article
, Yohann wrote:

>There are NO threats on the Internet that 99% of you can't protect
>yourself against with the following simple tools:

0) A functioning brain

>1) A router/gateway with SPI firewall

May not be required

>2) Spywareblaster (for immunization only -- freeware)
>
>3) Spybot Search & Destroy (for immunization and scanning -- freeware)

Not needed if you have '0)' above, and don't install spyware

>4) Decent anti-virus package.

May not be needed if you have '0)' above, and disable "AUTORUN" and
"AUTO-INSTALL"

>Software firewalls simply slow down your PC, destabilize it, and give you
>nothing but false alarms.

Yes, a lot of them cater to the four-year-old mind or the equivalent
web user

>Let me guess: 99% of you are not running webservers/e-mail servers. Right?

The problem with your guess is that 99.999% of the users have absolutely
no idea what they are running. They may not intentionally be running one,
but usually are.

>If you are then, yes, you've got security needs that are not covered by
>the above.

Why don't you show people how to determine what is running on their
systems, and how to disable the unwanted and/or unsafe services and
applications?

>Let's face it. Most of you are just PC users who surf the Net, use e-mail
>and, occassionaly, go the Usenet to download some porn and spank you
>Johnson. You've got nothing to worry about!

except the equally clueless id10ts who mail pictures of words, so that
you can see the subtle shading in the crayon they used to scrawl the
message, and the appealing mal-ware needed to get a better view of the
pr0n, and to delete the browser history so that Mommy doesn't see you've
been visiting those "interesting" websites.

>In over 10 years of surfing, downloading, and reading e-mail I've had no
>bigger problem than an occassional bit of spyware...easily taken care of.

Why are you installing spyware in the first place?

>Get a grip! And IF you are one of the users here who runs servers, then
>you shouldn't be asking for advice on this half-ass board!

And your advice _might_ be more useful if you had the first form of a
clue that this isn't some wonky web board, but is a widely distributed
Usenet news group. Apparently, you don't notice the difference.

Old guy