Re: firewall for a client
--- raul@c3-po.info wrote:
>
> Hi there! it seemed interesting ur chat about using a firewall on a
> debian desktop PC, maybe is the wrong time for this question
> (or is too stupid)but what about virus trojans rootkits etc, isn't it
> there
> an actual need for
> having firewalled any PC linked to the Internet? or having here the
> wrong
> concept of things....
>
Worms would be more of a threat, how ever the only service were even
thinking about running is mldonky. The only way for a worm to infect this
PC would be a tcp/ip exploit, runing a firewall has a %50 chance of
exposing a tcp/ip exloit. The other %50 goes to not running a firewall.
As far as trojans rootkits, it's vary common to be running a firewall so
you would think than any trojans rootkits would disable the firewall.
There are better ways of dealing with this problem, especialy in debian.
> thanks anyway
>
>
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> Raúl Martínez Sánchez
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