Are you ready for this?

[fLYtRap]

Here I found this interesting and very entertaining story
It is a very long reading, but make sure to read it all!

http://www.grc.com/dos/grcdos.htm

[redwudz]

It is interesting reading, but dated 2001, with the last update 2005. While I don't know, I would hope a lot of those loopholes have been plugged since then. I use a simple software firewall that monitors outgoing packets and blocks and informs me of the 'odd' ones.

One of the problems I see with Vista at present is that it apparently doesn't block any outgoing packets as I understand. If this is correct, this seems a huge security flaw. But at least one company, ZoneAlarm seems to have a usable firewall for the OS. Others should follow or MS may correct that seeming mistake.

I see the ISPs flagged with a lot of the blame in that article. And I would agree when they don't respond or attempt to control their customers illegal activities when they have been informed. That hopefully has also changed since that article.

Just my thoughts.

[fLYtRap]

It is interesting reading, but dated 2001, with the last update 2005. While I don't know, I would hope a lot of those loopholes have been plugged since then.

Unfortunately hackers are improving too...

Anyways I am a little bit disappointed after what I read about BlackIce. Currently I am running 4 firewalls that cooperate just fine and I am pretty much invisible right now

As for the article my favorite part is chat between Mr. Gibson and b0ss