From: "Geo" 

This is how one of my NT4 machines got hit by the recent worm. I had to
allow dns replication for a reverse lookup zone with a downstream ISP and
the worm spread from his server to mine thru the open ports.

Geo.

"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
news:4552a6a1$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> OK, so if you have a software firewall, I thought one of the advantages
> of having a software firewall was to keep virii and trojans from your
> side of the router/hardware firewall from getting on your machine.  But
> in order to have access, in a peer to peer situation at least to the
> other computers and their files you have to basically allow all TCP/UDP
> access on basically all ports from 0 to 1100 give or take a few.  If you
> don't you can't log connect to network drives and other network
> resources on other machines.  So how is the software firewall protecting
> you from trojans and virii on other computers on your side of the
> router/hardware firewall???
>
> Confused?
>
> Gary

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