Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 02:36:01 +0100 From: "Marcel Dijk" <nascar24@home.nl> To: <security@freebsd.org> Subject: allowing outbound connections Message-ID: <023701c198ae$0286ba80$0200a8c0@testuser>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0234_01C198B6.60D1B330 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, Is it (very) dangerous to allow all outgoing connections? I have IPFW = running wich ristricts what is going into the server/LAN from the = internet. But it does not restrict what is going to the internet from = within my LAN. Is this potentially dangerous, with regards to virussus (or virri?) and = trojans? This has puzzled me for some time now. Greets, Marcel ------=_NextPart_000_0234_01C198B6.60D1B330 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2712.300" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Hello,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Is it (very) dangerous to allow all = outgoing=20 connections? I have IPFW running wich ristricts what is going into the=20 server/LAN from the internet. But it does not restrict what is going to = the=20 internet from within my LAN.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Is this potentially dangerous, with = regards to=20 virussus (or virri?) and trojans?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>This has puzzled me for some time = now.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Greets,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Marcel</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0234_01C198B6.60D1B330-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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