From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 26 18:48:12 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DF941065677 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:48:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from nagual.nl (cc20684-a.assen1.dr.home.nl [82.74.10.158]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 150DA8FC08 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:48:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from westmark (westmark.nagual.nl [192.168.11.22]) by nagual.nl (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/yanta) with SMTP id mAQInKMF019623 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:49:20 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:48:04 +0100 From: dick hoogendijk To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20081126194804.26273396.dick@nagual.nl> In-Reply-To: References: <492D51CB.9000201@a1poweruser.com> <20081126081306.17qwm4xcthtwcgw0o@intranet.casasponti.net> <20081126174157.C66781@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Organization: de nagual X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.5.0 (GTK+ 2.14.3; i386-pc-solaris2.11) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 192.168.11.35 Subject: Re: firewall rules for bitlord, yahoo, limewire X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:48:12 -0000 On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:54:43 -0600 "Andrew Gould" wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Wojciech Puchar < > wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: > > > sorry for asking but what are this "limewire" programs are? > > > > > 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 ;-) > If I am incorrect in my technical assessment, I welcome a correction. Personally I'm not infected on windows machines recently by any limewire connections. But ymmv. > When people ask my advice about computers, I always include: "Never > use Limewire, or anything like it." You can also say: use them but don't connect them to the net. I know, I'm cynical here, but limewire is not all bad! -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS sxce snv101 ++ + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others (Lewis Carrol)