[ShadowAce]

[Centurion2000]

"Once the firewall is down, where's your line of defense?" he said Monday, in an interview.

Where it should be ... on a network appliance.

[facedown]

..."has concluded that the issue only impacts users of Windows XP,"...

Oh well that's OK then. It'll only affect a few million people.

[FReepapalooza]

Do these people really have nothing better to do?

[Redcloak]

Does anyone still use ICS?

[Cicero]

I've never used the windows firewall. I don't think it's all that good.

[Ramius]

An interesting, but lame hack. You've already got to be inside the firewall to do it. Somebody who's building their network using ICS is already not very serious about security.

The firewall belongs on a box upstream of the LAN anyway.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Users can avoid the attack by disabling ICS, Reguly said. But this will also kill the shared Internet connection.

Why not just get a cheap router with a hardware-based firewall built in?

[sumocide]

Anything but a hardware firewall is useless anyway.

[Echo Talon]

The code, which was posted on the Internet early Sunday morning, could be used to disable the Windows Firewall

Who uses Windows Firewall?

[KoRn]

This will bring down an XP firewall remotely:

'

---

Start

Set objFirewall = CreateObject("HNetCfg.FwMgr")
Set objPolicy = objFirewall.LocalPolicy.CurrentProfile

objPolicy.FirewallEnabled = FALSE

'

---

End



Of course you have to know the local administrative credentials, which are all too often easy to guess, if there are any at all on a home Windows PC.

[HoosierHawk]

I've used the Tiny Personal Firewall for years; from Window NT to Window XP Pro.

I wouldn't be without it.

[dennisw]

Hahaha
I have a hardware firewall in my router, I use WindowsXP's firewall and I use Zone Alarm firewall. I use SpyWare Blaster which sort of locks down your computer in advance of assaults. Also Windows Defender and McAfee anti virus. Also AVG anti virus. Some of these are run only when I remember to. Once a week or so.

[mgstarr]

I'm amused by sheeple who willingly choose Windows when there are far better choices out there.

[Clara Lou]

LOL--who in the world trusts their computer to the Windows firewall? Way too funny!!

[taxed2death]

mepis

[Golden Eagle]

Requires ICS is enabled? LOL are you really that desperate to post Windows hacks? I guess the larger point that some people are fanatical about hacking Windows was well made however.

[kalee]

ping

[tutstar]

ping...

[TChris]

Internet Connection Service (ICS)

Oops! Author got this wrong. It's "Internet Connection Sharing"