SP2 - Security

  • Thread starter Thread starter Menno Hershberger
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And can you contribute anything at all facts or otherwise?
Or does anything you say have to be form of insult?
This post of yours tells much about you.
 
Them people knowledgeable of those applications need to make the
appropriate suggestions to their manufacturers.
Suggestions about documentation improvements can be a great idea but
all is lost if the manufacturer never gets the feedback.

Overall users need to make themselves better informed.
Users may be getting better informed but a great many do not even
attempt to learn more.
Fore some of them anything more than the most basic and minimal
settings will be disabled and not used at all.
I would rather them have ICF running than the best most reliable
disabled because they will not take the time to learn.
I Have no idea how many that is, but the option is another option for
those who do not want a full featured firewall.
 
No one but you suggested "outbound security is meaningless".
Outbound security is far less important than inbound.
If you have unknowns going out, you have already failed because
something got in to send something out.
If you diligently maintain your computer, there is nothing undesirable
to send anything out.
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Actually I would disagree, some outbound seecurity is important as
some viruses/trojans send mass emails via local SMTP servers you are
not aware off. A proper Firewall will block those.

Peter Hutchison
 
Peter;
But what do you disagree?
I never said outbound security is unimportant.
Read the whole thread and you will get the whole context.

Some people would disable a full featured firewall rather than try to
properly configure it.
For those the simple ICF is better than nothing until a simpler full
featured firewall is available.
Such a firewall does not yet exist.
And if the computer is kept clean, there would be nothing going out.
Inbound is more important than outbound.
 
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