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Re: End-user laptop firewall available?



Frédéric CORNU:
> Le 08/12/2013 11:34, Bastian Blank a écrit :
>> On Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 10:55:30AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>> Any help/direction appreciated.
>>
>> The answer is: None. If you don't have anything listen on the network,
>> nothing can be accessed anyway.
>>
>> Bastian
>>
> 
> What about the possibility of a malicious piece of software beeing
> installed and starting listening to incomming connections without the
> knownledge of the system user ?
> 

Malicious software as in trojan horses, botnet clients? In that case,
not sure that were to help. Do they still need open incoming ports nowadays?


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