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Host firewalls don't generally do it. Seems AVs can better tolerate the reputation of being invasive and draconian. I suppose it's different if are focused on
by zurn 11y ago
Host firewalls don't generally do it. Seems AVs can better tolerate the reputation of being invasive and draconian.
I suppose it's different if are focused on trying to win from a starting point of a compromised machine, a kind of Core Wars game. On current systems this can't be reliably recovered from unfortunately, in that situation user should just be alerted to wipe & restore from backups.
- userbinator 11y agoFirewalls usually inspect IPs, ports, and processes when deciding to allow or block, but not packet contents.