[ros-general] Re: TDI-Based Open Source Personal Firewall

[Lyrical Nanoha]

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Murphy, Ged (Bolton) wrote:

> I'm sorry, but that's ridiculous, I can assure you that a firewall is
> needed.

As can I.  And I felt fine without one until I had Windows 2000 and a 
static IP.

> I think the statistics for hooking up an unprotected Windows machine to the
> internet are something like 10 minutes before it becomes infected.

5-10, or something like that.

Within a day after moving to a static IP (and my reverse-lookup advertises 
this fact, making me more vulnerable - 
static-141-149-129-16.buff.east.verizon.net - I got attacked by a worm 
that ground my system down to a halt and then killed LSASS.EXE, forcing a 
reboot.  Ever since then I have kept my computer firewalled - first by 
software, and then when that made my computer unusable for some of my 
vital projects (running the Japanese P2P client Share, for example) I set 
up a second computer as a firewall.  It is that second computer I am 
sending this mail from (a 486 running Debian Linux).

-uso.