[70350] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Worms versus Bots
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Tue May 11 12:22:07 2004
To: Chris Woodfield <rekoil@semihuman.com>
Cc: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>, Michael.Dillon@radianz.com,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 May 2004 11:38:33 EDT."
<20040511153833.GB5194@semihuman.com>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 12:21:29 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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On Tue, 11 May 2004 11:38:33 EDT, Chris Woodfield said:
> A better solution would be a NIC with a built-in SI firewall...manageable from a host
> app, but physically separate from the OS running on the PC.
Gaak. No. ;)
What's the point of a firewall, if the first piece of malware that does manage
to sneak in (via a file-sharing program, or a webpage that installs malware, or
an "ooh! Shiny!" email attachment) just does the network Plug-N-Play call to
tell the firewall "Shield DOWN!"?
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