Joshua Reed wrote:
> Or rather, *Don't* consider the windows firewall, at this point anyway.
> For the average user that leaves most or all ports running,
What's all ports running? There are 65535 TCP and UDP ports. Are they
all *running*? How many applications that use ports have *all* those
ports *running*?
and doesn't
> uninstall any applications or components, and isn't careful about what
> sites they visit or their browser settings,
What's any FW have to do with all that? And please don't tell me about
the crap ware in the personal FW solutions that are trying to protect
you from *you*.
> the Windows Firewall is, at
> present, woefully inadequate.
Why, because it doesn't have a lot of bloat crap you can point, click
and play with?
It's a packet filter solution that stops unsolicited inbound traffic
like it should be doing at the machine level.
Duane :)
