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.
Anonymous - A different one :)
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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