I just wonder
Having an outbound protecting firewall is nice in theory.
All the IDS and hips etc.
I met a "hacker" today in yahoo messenger. He admitted that he had tried to hack me.
I saw it all in my kerio 2.1.5 logs i kept. It was inbound protection that kept me safe ... I hope. That sleazebag from shri lanka admitted to me later that he was trying to hack me "out of curiosity". It was all about my inbound protection. Or protection you need against worms and all bad internet stuff.
But the game is really lost once you download bad malware to your computer. It is lost, period. It is then reformat time, nothing to believe you are still safe.
So inbound protection is most important.
I agree outbound protection is a bonus, but a VERY minor one !
David R, have you ever found much from the outbound protection you have with your firewall ? Or is it really over adverticed feature?
Some baddies instead only finding some programs like media player realplayer, your IM's run secret their updaters that you can stop doing so with outbound protection.
Any real baddies?