On Wednesday 17 November 2004 10:06 pm, Dennis Kibbe kindly wrote: > On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 07:51:55 -0700 > > Siri Amrit Kaur wrote: > > On Monday 15 November 2004 10:47 am, Joseph Toon kindly wrote: > > [...] > > > 2 questions about this: > > > > 1. If I set up a firewall appliance with IPcop, can I install Postfix, > > Amavisd and clamav on it? > > And why not Frozen Bubble while you're at it. > > Firewalls should be just that, firewalls. The more services run on the > firewall the bigger risk that it will get 0wn3d. > > Dennisk Thanks, Dennis. I came to the same conclusion after another day of reading. I was thinking about the security distros like ClarkConnect that seem to have firewall and other apps bundled together. It seemed like a good thing to be able to virus scan from the firewall so each box on the LAN wouldn't need it's own AV suite. But then I started to realize what you're saying: > Firewalls should be just that, firewalls. The more services run on the > firewall the bigger risk that it will get 0wn3d. And those extra apps would just be more things I would have to master and keep updated perfectly. I'd rather run Norton on the Windows boxes and let it update itself every day. Siri Amrit --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss