Re: Unknown download activity in background - how to determine whatit is?
Re: Unknown download activity in background - how to determine whatit is?
Kerry Brown wrote:
> You said that this: "Myth: Host-Based Firewalls Must Filter Outbound
> Traffic to be Safe." was baloney.
I never said that and don't attribute things that I have not said to me!
Reread my post!
I quoted this from the article:
"Speaking of host firewalls, why is there so much noise about outbound
filtering? Think for a moment about how ordinary users would interact
with a piece of software that bugged them every time a program on their
computer wanted to communicate with the Internet..."
And I said that (quoted material) was baloney! A firewall monitoring
outbound connections will ask you if you want to permanently allow or
disallow the connection, you will not be "...bugged them every time a
program on their computer wanted to communicate with the Internet...".
That is false information in the article, and for some reason or other
and for sometime now Microsoft has been trying to discredit *all*
firewalls except its own. What is it that Microsoft is hiding? Why are
they so adamant that users not be aware of outgoing connections on their
computers?
John