Per Jessen said the following on 04/30/2013 02:10 PM:
Now when it comes down to single home machines plugged directly into the Big Bad Wild Internet, yes I agree, they need the firewall ON! Even such machines will very often be sat behind a DSL router with an active/default firewall.
And maybe even the ISP will do filtering of malware attachments to email messages. Mine does; or it seems I occasionally get a message from its filtering software telling me that its blocked one such ... -- I agree with Bejtlich on this particular subject Do you want a defensible network or not? - Martin Roesch, developer of Snort and founder of Sourcefire, referencing The Tao of Network Security Monitoring in the #snort IRC channel on 26 January 2005 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org