Re: Borland Socket and Windows XP Firewall

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From: Hans Galema
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 10:06

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Stefano Bonifazi wrote:

 > ... no hacker would find interesting what I
> have in my PC ... 

That might be true. But hackers would be glad to use your computer
to send spam or to make denial of service attacks on unloved websites.

> The matter is another: many families will consider WinXP SP2 good enough for 
> protecting their home PC, so shortly most of home PC will be running that 
> "piece of junk" ... 

In your case (as your service is blocked) there is very good protection
from the internet. So when you consider it /junk/ it does /protect/ well
in this case.

Hans.

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