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Subject: Re: security-basics@securityfocus.com
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:03:17 +0200
On 2005-09-27 Lance.Druger@wellsfargo.com wrote:
The XP firewall is unidirectional, Trojans and viruses can communicate
out freely.

You can't reliably control outbound communication. If malware wants to
communicate outbound, it will. We have demonstrated in [1] (german page)
how an ordinary web-browser could be turned into a remote shell by
malware. The communication was not detected by any personal firewall.

[1] http://copton.net/vortraege/pfw/index.html

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
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erase the hard disk, then reinstall Mac OS X and your backed up files."
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