Personal Firewalls Mostly Useless, Says Mail & Guardian

hweimer writes "More and more security researchs come to the conclusion that personal firewalls are ineffective in controlling outbound traffic. An article in the Mail & Guardian online mentions a test that 'showed that the software often causes more problems than it solves. Not one of the six firewall programs the magazine tested, regardless of whether commercial or freeware, could prevent all attempts from the test programs at establishing outgoing connections between the PC and the internet.' Simple PoCs are available, too."

Comments

"Why home firewall software is a leaky dyke"

[Anonymous Coward]

As a lesbian, I must protest to this offensive and disparaging comment.

They just didn't have enough firewall.

[Colin Smith]

Most of the "secured" computers I've seen have 3, 4 or more firewalls installed and "working". If one firewall isn't stopping outbound connections, go install another one, you'll be twice as secure then.