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Re: firewalls
But what about the way a firewall can/does block unwanted use of .dll files, for example? – surely, that’s only a good thing?
You tell me. Is it? In what scenario is this helpful, and does it prevent certain kinds of negative things from happening all together, or does it just remove one attack vector where there are many, many more to choose from? A .dll bundles some functionaltiy and provides a documented way to access it. THe real problem with “unwanted use of .dll files” is that there is apparently code running that you rather wish would not be running, whether or not it’ll achieve it’s goal via this .dll, or that programm, or “built-in functionality” of the code that’s running is often not all that relevant. I guess it’s possible to construct situations where preventing program X from using .dll Y is in fact helpful and just what you need, I just doubt that for most people that will be the case.
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#17 2006-12-03 19:27:16
- NyteOwl
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Re: firewalls
Torrent works fine through my firewalls. NAT is not intended as a firewalling system though it’s commonly touted as such.
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