Re: FN-FORUM: Personal firewalls

date posted 27th June 2003 11:14

Gerard McGovern wrote:
>> Is not an application level firewall.
>
> And past that, I hate application level firewalls. As long no-one can
> = attack
> me from the outside (PIX and internal addresses) and I run Norton AV,
> I really don't see what the use is.

Because AV software only provides a sense of protection against legacy
viruses/Trojans. It will quite happily ignore anything that's not in its
definition files.

Remember nimda? It was almost a week after it hit before Norton would even
detect it reliably while running a manual scan (and that was with new virus
definitions being released almost every day!)

And that's saying nothing about custom Trojans that AV software will never
be
able to detect


Rick

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