Author: margolies,marc
Date: 12:58:46 09/11/03
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I dont know enough about your hardwired firewall to answer your question. I employ software firewall rules on applications like 'outlook' because their preferences are NOT password protected AND an app like outlook is highly scriptable.using a firewall rule is a surer prophylaxis than setting a preference in the mailer app, particularly if one considers that the app might already contain some flavor of benign spyware-- this is getting too off-topic, sorry. On September 11, 2003 at 13:53:24, Roy Eassa wrote: >On September 10, 2003 at 21:47:37, margolies,marc wrote: > >>no it's not the same. but the effect might be similar if your email does not >>open browser artifacts that way( which indicates the validity of your email >>address to the spam sender.) >>My method relies on the use of software firewalls and assigns rules to the >>priviledges of different applications, therefore it does not rely on the fact >>that the designer of any application I use to be honest (eg. different forms of >>'spyware') >> > > >So it's not something I can do solely with my Linksys router (hardware >firewall)?
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