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From: CdLSRN on 28 May 2008 12:55
I suspect Sebastian is a child having fun. He obviously doesn't know much about
"security" or he would just answer questions instead of attacking everyone. God save
this Country.

"Wilf" <wilf(a)replyto.newsgroup> wrote in message
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> Sebastian G. wrote, on 28/05/2008 11:41 am:
> > Wilf wrote:
> >
> >
> >>> Said someone who is too stupid to put a valid mail address in his From
header...
> >> It's for my security.
> >
> >
> > Obviously bullshit.
> >
> >> I don't think that's stupid at all.
> >
> >
> > Why exactly do you think that ignoring a MUST in a RFC is not stupid?
> >
> > > Because I'm
> >
> >> afraid that bullying oafs such as yourself may latch on to my email
> >> address and abuse it.
> >
> > Stupid. You're not supposed to read or even store any mail received in the
> > mailbox. The purpose of it being an actual mailbox is to not generate any
> > errors for the sender.
>
> Whatever. Bye.
> --
> Wilf


From: Sebastian G. on 28 May 2008 12:58
CdLSRN wrote:


> I am getting a new computer within a month and I have a belkin router with a
> hardware firewall. I just wanted to see if I could protect my machine in the meantime


As I already told you: As long as you're insisting on using a trivialliy
insecure operation system and as long as you intentionally run trivially
insecure client software, you won't be able to secure your machine.
Especially not with a host-based packet filter, which, in addition to a
secure OS and secure client software, requires intimate knowledge of
networking protocols.
From: Sebastian G. on 28 May 2008 12:59
CdLSRN wrote:

> I suspect Sebastian is a child having fun. He obviously doesn't know much about
> "security"


So that I'm regularly reporting security vulnerabilities in largely deployed
software products must be a pure coincidence.

> or he would just answer questions


You got an answer: Your security approach is horribly futile.
From: CdLSRN on 28 May 2008 13:00
Sebastian wrote: 'this is comp.security.misc." According to my last look ...I am
posting to comp.security.FIREWALLS.
"CdLSRN" <ginnyrn5(a)nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Well it was very kind of you to respond. Perhaps I am "a stupid and naive fool
asking
> a horribly stupid
> > question" , that is why I ask such really competent people, who are "discussion"
> security, such as yourself,Sebastian. Are you used to only having really competent
> people ask questions?
> I am getting a new computer within a month and I have a belkin router with a
> hardware firewall. I just wanted to see if I could protect my machine in the
meantime
> as I have a lot of important data on it and Computer Associates just stopped
> supporting windows 98. Thank you for responding and taking your time.
>
> "Sebastian G." <seppi(a)seppig.de> wrote in message
> news:6a4j4rF35t4jgU1(a)mid.dfncis.de...
> > CdLSRN wrote:
> >
> > > How about one that isn't free. Is there nothing that is compatible with 98?
> >
> >
> > See, this is comp.security.misc. We're discussion security. Not good faith,
> > but actual security. With Windows 98 and its lack of privilege separation,
> > with Outlook Express being abused as a newsreader, and questions for a
> > firewall instead of a host-based packet filter, the really competent people
> > here surely consider you as a stupid and naive fool asking a horribly stupid
> > question.
> >
> > Just in case that you wonder: No, ZoneAlarm is not a firewall. It's a
> > host-based packet filter. A very lousy one. With a lot of known security
> > vulnerabilities, a horribly broken concept, made be a malicious company.
>
>


From: Volker Birk on 29 May 2008 08:36
CdLSRN <ginnyrn5(a)nospam.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know of a free firewall that still works with windows 98?

For Windows 98, usually you don't need packet filtering. Just unbind
any network service from your network interface you don't want to have.

Just right-click and delete in the property window for your interface
for doing so.

Yours,
VB.
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