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Re: [Full-disclosure] 3rd party patch for XP for MS09-048?



On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:34:00 MDT, James Lay said:

> Apparently MS either:
> 
> a)  believes that people/employees on a LAN would NEVER EVER do anything
> naughty or;
> b)  that hostbased firewalls should be enabled on ALL workstations
> regardless if they are behind corporate firewall/nat/etc...

You do realize that (b) is a best-practices, right?  You want defense in depth,
because otherwise all it takes is one idiot over in Accounting to click on one
image, and you win an entire box full of the Marcus Ranum "crunchy outside,
soft chewy inside" firewall candy. ;)

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