Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:30:04 -0500 From: APseudoUtopia <apseudoutopia@gmail.com> To: "Andrew Gould" <andrewlylegould@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Fbsd1 <fbsd1@a1poweruser.com> Subject: Re: firewall rules for bitlord, yahoo, limewire Message-ID: <27ade5280811262230x319bff2ajc65b8df771c9143f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <d356c5630811262125t33283ebdqf7be86fdfd05e533@mail.gmail.com> References: <492D51CB.9000201@a1poweruser.com> <20081126081306.17qwm4xcthtwcgw0o@intranet.casasponti.net> <d356c5630811260728s4991454ci11a25c3c316f1825@mail.gmail.com> <20081126174157.C66781@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <d356c5630811260854v610dca13k29b940daac48516f@mail.gmail.com> <20081126194804.26273396.dick@nagual.nl> <492DEC60.9070105@a1poweruser.com> <d356c5630811262125t33283ebdqf7be86fdfd05e533@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Andrew Gould <andrewlylegould@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Fbsd1 <fbsd1@a1poweruser.com> wrote: > >> dick hoogendijk wrote: >> >> >>>>> My unofficial take on it is that limewire is a peer-to-peer sharing >>>> application used by Windows, Mac OS X and Linux users to share files, >>>> usually music, often copyrighted, over the internet. It is one of the >>>> fastest, most effective ways to spread viruses, trojans, spyware, etc. >>>> >>> >>> Is this your FreeBSD POV or more windows oriented? >>> >>> The program does not use fixed ports, so the services are hard to >>>> block. In essence, the program gets the user to bypass security >>>> measures from the inside. >>>> >>> >>> I have never needed a block on limewire. Firstly, all main conmputers >>> run solaris and therefore also limewire on solaris and secondly, all >>> windows machines are virtual. So -IF- one of them is infected I just >>> put a recent snapshot ;-) >>> >>> >> Limewire is a windows only application. >> So how can you say it runs on solaris which is a flavor Unix? > > > The Limewire website says it has versions for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and > others, including OS/2 and Solaris. Yeah. Limewire is written in Java (iirc), which makes it extremely easy to port it to any system that can run java.
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