I _think_ what trakit might have meant, but the "meaning" was lost in his inimitable way, , is that the firewall should manage itself. It should check every time it is started and every 24 hours that it has been running to see if there are any updates for itself. Maybe also it should monitor user input and make certain decisions for itself. For example it notices that a user is clicking on an attachment to an email and the attachment immediately attempts to open a port...

This will be a quickie response, sorry. A number of my Window Platforms were using Blackice and Zonealarm and this was before the malicious hackers installed their Backdoors and Trojan Horses on these systems. This was before these systems had any firewall installed on the computer. Hint, hint, hint people. How hard do I have to try to get people to realize that a firewall is **** if you have not installed it from the beginning of sticking your computer online? Tell me what proof you'll would like to see and it will be shown to you.

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