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To: sirgawain, unix, dead
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To: sirgawain
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To: sirgawain
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To: sirgawain
"Personal Firewalls" are mostly snake-oil Not according to Steve R. Gibon of Gibson Research. He swears by ZoneAlarm.
Just because YOU say something, doesn't make it so.
To: sirgawain
Tx.
To: sirgawain
I've been quite happy with ZoneAlarm. I've been running it under both Windows 98 and Windows 2000 Professional for about four months, and it's already protected my machines from a variety of crack attacks.
Granted that a firewall appliance that stands alone between your computer and the network cable can be made less intrusive and possibly even more protective, ZoneAlarm appears to do a reasonable job, and so far it hasn't destabilized any of my systems at all.
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To: sirgawain
You are wrong. Flat out wrong. Yes, 99% of the software personal firewalls out there are garbage, but ZoneAlarm is simply the best software firewall package there is.
Get a copy and try it out. Or, I invite you to try to gain access to my system any time you want. You will fail.
If I'm wrong, I'll post here and say so.
If you fail, you must do the same.
To: sirgawain
Oops. I feel I must apologize. I am guilty of responding to your post before reading it entirely.
I am such an avid fan of ZoneAlarm that my hands flew over the keyboard before I read your whole post.
Many of the things you state are correct, but ZA is so far beyond all the other software firewalls out there, that it does offer adequate protection as a stand alone.
To: sirgawain
So... what does a 'personal firewall' actually do? Well, effectively it listens on all the ports on your system. This provides no real additional security over turning off the services that you don't use. Hmm... I've been using ZoneAlarm Pro for years, and it limits ALL ports and traffic that I have not specifically approved.
21 posted on
09/19/2001 9:31:03 AM PDT by
SunStar
To: sirgawain
Well, thanks. My zone alarm has been going off constantly and since it's kinda new to me, I was getting very paranoid. Thanks for clearing it up. I will no longer consider making a fool of myself now by reporting all these "invasions." :-)
To: sirgawain
Absolute BS. I rely on BlackIce to detect and block SubSeven probes over my cable modem, and it deflects at least one a day. I agree that some newbies might freak out every time they get an HTTP port probe, but that doesn't mean that the software is bad.
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