Dumb Firewall programs provide absolutely NO protection whatsoever against backdoor programs that come built into Internet servers such as NetSnooper Gold. NetSnooper is an example of what ANY program can do to gain access to your PC once it has passed through posing as one of your trusted Internet programs.

If the user were to trust a program such as mIRC they would also be trusting any backdoored scripts that the program may load. Your computer could also be a host used to infect other computers. All of this can easily be done without even so much as a single warning bell from a Dumb Firewall.

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