Re: Personal Firewall for Business use

[Kevin Saenz <ksaenz () spinaweb com au>]

> > I can give you a personal example, maybe trivial but real. Most of the
> > time I live outside of the US, but my family network in the USA runs,
> > unattended, on Windows 2000 server with a full-time modem connection
> > to an ISP. An old version of Tiny Personal Firewall runs on that
> > server, and successfully protected it from the MS Blaster worm that
> > hit while I was out of the country.
I really don't understand your relationship with a firewall and
MSBlaster. A firewall is a packet filter, if configured correctly
you will stop applications (virus or otherwise) from accessing a
computer's network port. If a vulnerably port is left opened by a
firewall ie: port 80 for iis then expect it to be owned :)
Problem with most windows based personal firewalls:
1) Provide a false sense of security to the untrained or uninitiated.
2) is some viral attacks are smart enough to disable firewalls.



> > I don't use any of the personal firewall features such as application
> > checking, just simple blocking of incoming connections that I have
> > configured directly. So maybe you are correct that there is no reason
> > to run a "personal firewall" on a server, but this particular
> > "personal firewall product" had some value to me on a server, mainly
> > because it was free and available.






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