VMWindows backdoor 1472
Bad argument. The lack of *known* holes doesn't guarantee that there are no holes. I readily conclude that I cannot show you an example of a single security hole in...
So anyway, it was like, 07:12 CEST May 30 2006, you know? Oh, and, yeah, Vilmos Soti was all like, "Dude,
The "appliance" variety of firewall, ie any random Netgear or D-Link "Internet Router" type device with NAT and-or filtering capability is commonly referred to as a "hardware firewall" in that it is separate from your working environment, as opposed to installing a "software firewall" on your desktop and connecting directly to the evil Internet from there.
Your 486 (I scrapped my own P-90 for a sleek Via mini-itx not long ago, but I'm (of course) still running OpenBSD on the new one) would qualify in this regard as well.
The obvious(?) advantage being that malicious software cannot directly take control of and disable the hardware firewall if, for some reason, it makes its way to any of the computers that is being protected. In my personal opinion, software firewalls just aren't worth the time spent installing them, much less clicking on the "allow foo.exe to connect to the Internet?!?" prompts for a fortnight before finally
So anyway, it was like, 18:20 CEST May 30 2006, you know? Oh, and, yeah, Vilmos Soti was all like, "Dude, If all it does is being a firewall, then I'd call it a...
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