Hi,

Just a quick question about those in the know about Windoze raw sockets and
firewalls. I've asked several firewall suppliers (Tiny, etc) how their
products cope with raw sockets, i.e. whether the firewall covers only the
TCP/IP stack or whether they make some attempt to protect against raw
socket accesses, too. None of them are forthcoming on this issue which only
leads me to think that they do not protect and that you are quite exposed
on a raw socket system, in terms of trojans/spyware/etc even with such a
firewall (ok, yes, you are exposed anyway as it is not difficult to send
data out via browsers and such like but that is another issue).

Anyone have any comments on this subject, preferably minus ones involving
"switch to Linux/*nix" ;-)?

Regards,
Dan

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