How many personal firewalls in a system?

And where were you last week when I explained that all of the above insecurities can be mitigated if IE has been configured appropriately?

For example, you could switch off ActiveScripting and ActiveX. Then you have a browser, which not only is totally unusable (no JavaScript, no AJAX based sites, no Flash, ...), but also infamous for letting attacks come true in spite of having switched off the feature, like with switched off ActiveX and in spite of this fact the exploit with "scripting safe" COM objects.

Really great.

There are people, who want to use their browser. And they want this for using web sites. Surprised? Of course, if you don't want to use most of the common web sites securely, then you may use Internet Exploder. If you trust in a browser, which repeatedly had security problems with features, which were switched off, of course.

I think, your own postings here show, that you're not trusting in Internet Explorer, too:

| The good thing about MS Antispyware is that it prevents | malware from being installed; it pops up a huge red box warning you and also | allows you to see any browser "helpers" that have been or are trying to be | installed.

If you're trusting in your browser, you don't need such features.

Yours, VB.

You mean TCP sockets, when you're referencing "TCP/IP communication", do you?

Ah - yes. And the easiest solution is to configure the applications not to do so, right? Then you don't need filtering here.

Yes. And a very easy solution for this problem is not to show then such useless popups, but filter the traffic away. Right?

Yes. In this perfect world even the manufacturers of "Personal Firewalls" would think about their concepts. Oops, Commodo did here in this group the last days...

And again and again (and again) the same question: please mention one single advantage of a "Personal Firewall" above the Windows-Firewall, which leads into a secure situation against an attack vector of your choice.

If ever one single person here or in other places will show a single feature of a single "Personal Firewall", which does, then please compare to all the threats you're getting by installing one of the common "Personal Firewalls" we tested.

From there:

| "When a person uses a 'Remote Control Trojan', they are provided with | equal, if not greater control of another person's PC than that of the | owner sitting at its keyboard." - Don Kelloway

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Don't you know, that when a PC ever was remotely controlled by an unwanted third party, then you never can trust the system on this PC any more, if you're "removing" the remote control software or not? So it is completely useless to remove such software instead of flattening and rebuild?

You could read this for starting:

This I'll take exception to Volker, I *do* know I have not been compromised, neither my pc nor my servers, at murrumba.net.

Wayne