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Other => Computer News => Topic started by: Flame on January 18, 2005, 03:45:18 PM

Title: Why firewalls are important...
Post by: Flame on January 18, 2005, 03:45:18 PM

This is an example from Microsoft on why firewalls are so important... http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/viruses/fwbenefits.mspx  Check it out!

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Title: Re: Why firewalls are important...
Post by: Joleen on January 19, 2005, 06:55:24 AM

Bah!  I heard that was an old-wives tale.  By-the-way, what's your IP?

Title: Re: Why firewalls are important...
Post by: Computer_Commando on January 19, 2005, 10:10:40 AM

(http://www.danasoft.com/vipersig.jpg)

Title: Re: Why firewalls are important...
Post by: 2k dummy on January 19, 2005, 12:31:09 PM

Why software other than firewalls is important. ;D

GET /vipersig.jpg HTTP/1.1
Host: www.danasoft.com
User-Agent: SpacedOut/0.01 [fu] (Win67; X; IEsucksbigtime)
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,
video/x-mng,image/png,image/jpeg,image/gif;q=0.2,text/css,*/*;q=0.1
Accept-Language: en-us, en;q=0.50
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1, utf-8;q=0.66, *;q=0.66
Connection: close
Referer: http://www.danasoft.com/vipersig.jpg
Cache-Control: max-age=0
Forwarded: www.danasoft.com
URL-Killer: This connection has been axed

Title: Re: Why firewalls are important...
Post by: Flame on January 19, 2005, 07:21:40 PM

Nice examples guys! Message to all viewers: PLEASE use these links and download any available software! We see too many cases of people who fall victims to viruses/worms. Download these files now. The sooner you protect you computer, the better off you are!  ;)

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