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Based on your definition, you really are a shill, blindly defending *nix with no thought to what is actually being said!

I don't seem to remember having any problems opening Konqueror and connecting to a web site after installing Mandrake. No outgoing ports were blocked, by default, as you suggest. If no outgoing ports are blocked, I can access the outside world through SMTP, FTP, or HTTP. If you are going to block HTTP on a default installation of Linux, all I have to say is good luck ever reaching more than 1% of the desktops out there!! Also, this is a FIREFOX extension. If *nix, by default, blocks outgoing HTTP connections from Firefox on a machine that has Firefox installed, and you don't unblock it... well... you REALLY are dumber than I thought!!!! You enjoy staring at a blank Firefox page? happy

Oh, wait, I misunderstood. What you meant is that your firewall would block outgoing connections for you? Now, would this be the firewall that is bolted into *nix, or the one you install separately? Did you know that there are tons of firewall solutions for Windows that block outgoing connections and every single one of them would be 100% effective at blocking spyware communication routes?

Try again shill. You still haven't convinced me that it would be ANY more difficult to write spyware targetting a dumb user's *nix desktop than it would be a dumb user's Windows desktop. All you've really managed to do is convince me that firewalls are good, no matter what OS you use and, to be honest, it wasn't your BRILLIANT insight into the wonderful world of *nix that did that.
Posted by: NonZealot   Posted on: 10/28/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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I hate to say it  htotten | 10/27/04
Anti-Spyware Software  Chad_z | 10/27/04
Our costs have not gone up  toadlife | 10/27/04
Not to be to much  Cardinal_Bill | 10/27/04
Missing the point?  toadlife | 10/27/04
Ditto here  PA-ITGuy | 10/27/04
Let's try again.  Cardinal_Bill | 10/27/04
Try all you like  PA-ITGuy | 10/27/04
Damn...  Cardinal_Bill | 10/27/04
OK, It's not free  PA-ITGuy | 10/27/04
Cost of Security  Stephen Wheeler | 11/03/04
I'm surpirsed you're continuing this line of defence  Richard Flude | 10/27/04
To begin with  PA-ITGuy | 10/27/04
Actually you've said it repeatedly  Richard Flude | 10/27/04
Re: Actually you've said it repeatedly  PA-ITGuy | 10/27/04
To PA  Roger Ramjet | 10/28/04
The shill is strong in you  NonZealot | 10/27/04
The shill is strong in you also  middle of nowhere | 10/27/04
...  toadlife | 10/27/04
The shill is stronger in you  NonZealot | 10/27/04
I prefer it Windows not install Spyware  voska | 10/27/04
Firewalls  mobrien_12@... | 10/27/04
i use a differnet firewall  V Sanders | 10/27/04
No argument from me there.  mobrien_12@... | 10/27/04
Corporate, corporate. corporate  htotten | 10/28/04
only because  V Sanders | 10/27/04
Shill is Shrill  Roger Ramjet | 10/28/04
Spybot is your friend...  wolf_z | 10/28/04
Commercial options  ibabadur1 | 10/27/04
Yawn  Yagotta B. Kidding | 10/27/04
This is news to me  NonZealot | 10/27/04
You mnay run into problems running the executable  Sunny Jalolly | 10/27/04
I addition to Sunny's response  Roger Ramjet | 10/28/04
Focus shill  NonZealot | 10/28/04
IE's fault  DarthRidiculous | 10/27/04
Expectations and knowledge  Sunny Jalolly | 10/27/04
Expectations and knowledge  htotten | 10/28/04
most corporations do not *encrypt*  V Sanders | 10/27/04
most corporations  htotten | 10/28/04
Bigger problem or final solution?  Update victim | 10/28/04
Divide  htotten | 10/28/04
Why do companies take so long?  OldeTimeGeek | 10/28/04

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