Re: Application Layer firewall and Spyware
From: Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP] (kweilbacMVP_at_gte.net)
Date: 08/17/04
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Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 20:42:39 -0400
If your users are setup to have local admin rights on their workstations,
then you are open for such attacks.
-- Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP] "The days pass by so quickly now, the nights are seldom long" "Bret" <abc@email.com> wrote in message news:ewR2TZ8gEHA.556@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl... >I have been finding more and more spyware on computers with names like > trojan.something and backdoor.something. We run the latest anti-virus. > This is all Spyware related. Since many small businesses only run a > simple > NAT firewall is it possible for someone to compromise the network starting > with spyware? Could they open up enough of a backdoor to install other > hack > tools? NAT firewalls operate on the "you asked for it, you got it" > method. > Would Stateful Packet Inspection even stop this? > > Does the ISA server in SBS 2003 run a full application layer firewall? > Would it stop an inside-out compromise like this? Could someone > elaborate? > Thank you! > > >
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