Re: [PCWorks] A tip for stopping annoying harassing "slide-ups" (a kind of pop-up) immune to pop-up blockers
- From: David Grossman <dgrossman@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:11:49 +0200
> Windows just doesn't work very well in protecting people from the
> evil-doers out there.
Precisely, Hugh.
That is the bottom line of this entire thread!
I also tried to read that article about firewalls. My eyes glazed over after
the first few paragraphs. I put it into my Favorites, as something Very
Important that I have to get to... One Day Soon.
David Grossman
> Is this the part that's "Easy to understand"
> "The first is at the actual packet level (layers 3 and 4 of the OSI
> model). The job here is to look for suspicious or malformed packets,
> detect port scans, and assess whether or not each packet should be
> allowed into the protocol stack. Packets will be analyzed by networking
> criteria, for example: formal validity of the packet; direction of the
> packet (inbound or outbound); source host and port; destination host and
> port; specific packet flags (is this a connection attempt? Does it
> belong to an already established connection?)"
>
> It's not that I haven't tried, and I even have a book on TCP/IP, but
> that's largely opaque to me.
> My users barely understand copy and paste, so this might as well be in
> Greek.
> Windows just doesn't work very well in protecting people from the
> evil-doers out there.
>
>
> Peter Kaulback wrote:
> > David, and anyone else who wishes to learn more, can read about
> software
> > firewalls work here: http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1839
> > http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1840.
> >
> > A good easy to understand 2 part article about software firewalls.
> >
> > Peter Kaulback
>
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