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| Subject: | RE: Home PC Networking |
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| Date: | Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:03:00 -0800 |
2. I'd like a list of the (incomming/out going) ports thatshould beblocked on my firewall. It is a general home PC used for browsing, gaming, MSN etc.Incoming: 1-65535, both TCP and UDP Outgoing: none
^^^^ Terribly old school. Workable around 1993, when anyone with an Internet connection could be reasonably assumed to be a qualified admin, familiar with every executable on the box and its network behaviour. Not true since consumers found the web. See Bejtlich, Richard, "Extrusion Detection", Addison-Wesley. Filtering and monitoring the outbound traffic is a powerful way to limit and detect issues you actually need to worry about. David Gillett
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