Re: [PCWorks] A tip for stopping annoying harassing "slide-ups" (a kind of pop-up) immune to pop-up blockers
- From: "Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin" <PCWorks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:40:29 -0600
Although I've never been one to defend Windows or M$ (and you
all know that), ***aside from making a SECURE OS***, it's not
the job of Windows nor M$ to protect people from evil-doers.
That's why PC users must learn what they are doing and learn
about PC & internet security. ***And since M$ has failed since
day one to provide a secure OS and failed in protecting people
from (their) flaws, bugs and exploits, is all more the reason
we must take matters into our own hands and learn ourselves.
You can't trust anyone to protect yourself except yourself.
-Clint
Happy Thanksgiving to all and God Bless
Clint Hamilton, Owner
http://www.OrpheusComputing.com
http://www.ComputersCustomBuilt.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Grossman"
> 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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