more than raising awareness it looks like a corporate marketing
operation from majors:
"Where to Get a Personal Firewall
Personal firewalls are available from several vendors, including these
sponsors of Personal Firewall Day:
• McAfee Security
• Microsoft
• Sygate
• Zone Labs"
is that education?
Other other hand firewall day seems like being used by some people to
distribute new toys? I got more than 20 000 ms sql worm propagation in
the ids log today.
Come on guys try to objective for one day, next time do a copy/paste of
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Security/Firewalls/Products/
. That'd be education and not another useless corporate spam to sell
products.
my 0.158 euro
deepquest
"Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appelant"
On 15 janv. 04, at 02:21, <tlarholm_at_pivx.com> wrote:
> 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_at_pivx.com
> 949-231-8496
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