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Old 26th March 2007, 07:08 PM   #21 (permalink)
peterd
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Originally Posted by Vger
It got past the hardware firewall, and the Windows XP firewall, it was only AVG Pro that stopped it.
As far as I know, firewalls have never been able to directly block a worm/virus from entering a network/system. They can block the proliferation of certain worms by blocking ports that are exploited but that's it.
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