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Only if your Firewall Admin is a lazy bum
By default we try to turn everything off except for selected services. If they decide to redirect services in to specic ports, then there is little I can do, but how often do we hear about a virus trying to send itself out over port 80?

Remember when we had the issue with MS Blast. The first line of defense against others in the company was to block that outbound port so we wouldn't infect others.
Posted by: nucrash   Posted on: 04/27/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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They don't want MS protection? Or they've got something reliable instead?  HypnoToad72 | 04/27/06
Didn't you know...  ju1ce | 04/27/06
Only if your Firewall Admin is a lazy bum  nucrash | 04/27/06
Hey nu...  ju1ce | 04/27/06
Re: Only if your Firewall Admin is a lazy bum  none none | 04/27/06
Simplicity over Security ... again ...  ac2_z | 04/27/06
I agree..  ju1ce | 04/27/06
So turn it on yourself  georgeou | 04/27/06
Not so simple and not all about security  ibabadur1 | 04/27/06
thats like saying  not of this world | 04/27/06
It also makes it easier  bjbrock | 04/27/06
phone home?  xuniL_z | 04/27/06
Re: phone home?  none none | 04/27/06
Here you go  xuniL_z | 04/29/06
copy edit this story!  ChazzMatt | 04/27/06
What?  ThomasAnderson | 04/27/06
No, that's what he meant and it works both ways  georgeou | 04/27/06
Very sensible. Security can never get int he way of usability  mrjonno | 04/28/06
I agree...  jinko | 04/28/06
Shouldn't they leave it on for lazy non enterprise users  Boot_Agnostic | 04/28/06

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