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Software Firewalls: Made of Straw? Part 2 of 2
Israel G. Lugo, Don Parker

In part one of this article series we looked at how a personal firewall actually works and where it taps into the network stack to do its filtering. In part two we look at how easily the firewall's operation can be circumvented by inserting a malicious Trojan into the network stack itself.

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Software Firewalls: Made of Straw? Part 2 of 2 2006-02-02
Anonymous
Blaming software firewalls for not stopping communicaiton between a compromised web server and an outside 'attacker' seems a bit off target. How does this server get exploited in the first place? To me, this seems to be where the problem lies. You put an exploitable web server on the net and then...

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Software Firewalls: Made of Straw? Part 2 of 2 2006-07-02
Anonymous - A different one :)
Title should be:

WINDOWS -> Software Firewalls: Made of Straw?

To myself and many others a software firewall is one that is run on/with an operating system when said operating system is not setup to be a standalone, firewalling, natting only style,(maybe email virus/spam filter also) gateway.

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