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Posted by Steven L Umbach on July 25, 2006, 9:52 pm
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A good firewall at the perimeter is the best defense and will often keep
malicious activity from ever reaching your network adapter. I believe that
when they say it may crash your computer they are saying just that and it
will not necessarily crash your computer. If you are running Windows 95 it
may very well but if you are running XP SP2 that is current with critical
security updates I would really doubt that it would. Go ahead and try it to
see what happens with and without the McAfee firewall enabled. At worst you
would have to reboot.
Steve
> Hi. I'll keep this brief.
>
> I remember from many years ago, vaguely, something about TCP/IP stack
> crashes with regard to firewalls. I haven't given it much thought lately.
>
> Just today I used the Sygate technologies Stealthscan, and it stated that
> it
> was possible to crash my computer (or just penetrate my firewall ??)
> through
> known TCP/IP vulnerabilities. Does that make any sense to anyone ? And
> what
> about UNKNOWN TCP/IP vulnerabilities ?
>
> How vulnerable would I be with a McAfee firewall 7.x (about the latest
> version)
>
> Any way to protect me from that ?
>
> Any info would be appreciated. Thank you.
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