firewall rules for bitlord, yahoo, limewire

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On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Andrew Gould
<andrewlylegould at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Yeah. Limewire is written in Java (iirc), which makes it extremely
easy to port it to any system that can run java.