From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 27 06:30:05 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 08EA1106564A for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:30:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from apseudoutopia@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.232]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D203B8FC1C for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:30:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from apseudoutopia@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b25so783282rvf.43 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:30:04 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=IcMQXWAPI52m1BTeBmP0cLOm50FZR9zjCHvYFbDGgm0=; b=k7qgcxhh1jeKEh0KywRvqUGVsxMS/+AuYF95zDH8oTA23SDo90JIiIiOXBBPzhlgQH +kRn2q2uQPT4tbfRc1KsC23DwuGEmZYUvQTcgQ9rnHlACgcMbow/0WTOR1oBiZmGImH9 Bb5RViu7H2ZJdkupGox7BsAcaOTrdWK/ObWAw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=N8PTzyFV3Mscew8CiymZGCy0awyYatqV+vxYXEMNNW9JPM8Mpp0Xayh5ZANYxIFSW/ Li7NGBZKvuXVPiywkVBjqbltFLS3XlTe1H0WJrfZ4F6VKakm9U7BkzM6JRKoVCIF+eHg ADYtKTpIbj8fWrPZeljMIcfmXeO+lRPcpcui4= Received: by 10.142.158.17 with SMTP id g17mr2874887wfe.120.1227767404381; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:30:04 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.143.115.9 with HTTP; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:30:04 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <27ade5280811262230x319bff2ajc65b8df771c9143f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:30:04 -0500 From: APseudoUtopia To: "Andrew Gould" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <492D51CB.9000201@a1poweruser.com> <20081126081306.17qwm4xcthtwcgw0o@intranet.casasponti.net> <20081126174157.C66781@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081126194804.26273396.dick@nagual.nl> <492DEC60.9070105@a1poweruser.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Fbsd1 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: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:30:05 -0000 On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Andrew Gould wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Fbsd1 wrote: > >> dick hoogendijk wrote: >> >> >>>>> 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 ;-) >>> >>> >> Limewire is a windows only application. >> So how can you say it runs on solaris which is a flavor Unix? > > > The Limewire website says it has versions for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and > others, including OS/2 and Solaris. Yeah. Limewire is written in Java (iirc), which makes it extremely easy to port it to any system that can run java.