2014-04-28 18:59 GMT+02:00 Reindl Harald h.reindl@thelounge.net:
Am 28.04.2014 18:52, schrieb Miloslav Trmač:
No no no no no. If you want a firewall "integrated" /that/ way, you are
really
better of uninstalling it or opening it up; it serves no purpose.
no, even if that way is completly wrong it's better than no firewall as i have explained multiple times there may run software not from the Fedora repos which opens ports unintentionally from the users point of view and especially a user with no network expierience will not realize that - and yes that software matters because we are talking about a *operating system*
Well if the users' expectations were that the firewall doesn't "interfere" with Fedora applications, why would they expect it to "interfere" with non-Fedora applications?
the next thing is when it comes to malware opening ports
there are two types of malware:
- privilege escalation (you have lost)
- crap try to open a unprivileged port with user permissions
The second case is a subset of the first one anyway :)
And doesn't every malware know to make an _outgoing_ connection to an IRC server nowadays? Stopping malware by blocking incoming connections is fairly illusory IMHO. Mire