Bugtraq: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause

[<tlarholm () pivx com>]

I just wanted to remind everybody that tomorrow is Personal Firewall Day.
 
http://www.personalfirewallday.org/
 
The Personal Firewall Day is a campaign designed to raise awareness about the dangers we face without a personal 
firewall. Security experts such as yourself are encouraged to use the occasion of Personal Firewall Day to share your 
expertise and advice with your lesser technologically skilled friends and family, and help get them secured by 
installing a personal firewall - this could be as simple as helping them turn on the XP firewall. Direct them to the 
website where they can learn more about personal firewalls and other layers of protection.
 
Compromised end-user machines affect us all and the Internet as a whole when they are used as zombies for DDoS networks 
or proxies by criminal spammers, and your personal effort can help remedy this.
 
PFD is a direct result of the discussions that originated from the NTBugtraq Retreat '03, and would not have been 
possible without the dedication and hard work put into the project by Paul Robertson, director of risk assessment with 
TruSecure and the original proponent of the idea.
 
 
 
Regards 
Thor Larholm 
Senior Security Researcher 
PivX Solutions 
24 Corporate Plaza #180 
Newport Beach, CA 92660 
http://www.pivx.com 
thor () pivx com 
949-231-8496 
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