[64601] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Tue Oct 28 22:22:28 2003
Reply-To: <deepak@ai.net>
From: "Deepak Jain" <deepak@ai.net>
To: <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>, "Adam Selene" <nospam@vguild.com>
Cc: "'nanog list'" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 22:21:52 -0500
In-Reply-To: <200310290251.h9T2p243006135@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 18:28:55 CST, Adam Selene <nospam@vguild.com> said:
>
> > A probably configured firewall will protect a machine against
> everything but
> > it's user, and therein lies a problem you will likely never solve.
>
> The real problem is that we have an environment where the malware
> can figure
> out how to disable the firewall but the user can't.
Hopefully, one day software will be good enough the user won't have to be
smart.
And even clever malware will need some good luck to do its job.
DJ
