[71350] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Default" Internet Service
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Howe)
Sun Jun 13 10:39:45 2004
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 15:39:13 +0100
From: Dave Howe <DaveHowe@gmx.co.uk>
To: Email@merit.edu, List@merit.edu:nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
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John Curran wrote:
> If you're asserting that having firewalls in the path doesn't have
> any impact on rate of infection, please provide a link to this data.
Actually, it doesn't - practical experience on a medium sized corporate
network is that the firewall protects perfectly against TCP/IP worms -
right up to the first time some senior management bozo plugs his laptop
onto the network that his teen son was playing online games with all
last night... and has no effect at all on email or website/browser 'sploits.
