firewall rules for bitlord, yahoo, limewire

[Andrew Gould]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Fbsd1 <fbsd1 at a1poweruser.com> wrote:

> dick hoogendijk wrote:
>
>
>>>>  My unofficial take on it is that limewire is a peer-to-peer sharing
>>> application used by Windows, Mac OS X and Linux users to share files,
>>> usually music, often copyrighted, over the internet.  It is one of the
>>> fastest, most effective ways to spread viruses, trojans, spyware, etc.
>>>
>>
>> Is this your FreeBSD POV or more windows oriented?
>>
>>  The program does not use fixed ports, so the services are hard to
>>> block.  In essence, the program gets the user to bypass security
>>> measures from the inside.
>>>
>>
>> I have never needed a block on limewire. Firstly, all main conmputers
>> run solaris and therefore also limewire on solaris and secondly, all
>> windows machines are virtual. So -IF- one of them is infected I just
>> put a recent snapshot ;-)
>>
>>
> Limewire is a windows only application.
> So how can you say it runs on solaris which is a flavor Unix?


The Limewire website says it has versions for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and
others, including OS/2 and Solaris.