[Info-vax] Maybe a bit OT, maybe not.. in any case an interesting article

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2012-05-17 16:53, David Froble wrote:
> Bob Koehler wrote:
>> In article <jp0rk3$jlg$1 at dont-email.me>, David Froble
>> <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>>> I rarely re-boot, and I never turn on automatic updates.
>>
>> This is reportedly the most common cause of actual Windows security
>> failures. The crackers examine the patches to find out where the
>> security hole is, and then attack unpatched systems.
>
> My opinion is that the most common cause of security breeches is not
> having a good router and other firewall protection. No, not the firewall
> junk on weendoze.
>
> If a cracker cannot reach my system, then he can do no harm.
>
> Anybody here that opens something that they don't already know about
> gets kicked off the network. Then it's not my problem.

And the most common types of exploits are not other users contacting 
your machine, but you inadvertedly and unknowingly downloading software 
that exploit your system, and that software then connects to some 
exterior host, thereby setting up an access vector to your computer.
If you think a firewall is protecting you in any way, you are seriously 
mistaken.

	Johnny