To: snopercod
Zone Alarm is a firewall, meaning it controls certain types of traffic from hitting your machine and leaving your machine. If IE goes to a web page that contains the exploit code, it will gladly execute localally on your machine whether you have a firewall in place or not. Same thing with anti-virus. Someone could format your hard drive and a firewall and anti-virus can't do a thing about it. People put way too much trust in those things.
25 posted on
09/28/2003 7:36:27 AM PDT by
sigSEGV
To: sigSEGV
Thanks. I think I understand now.
27 posted on
09/28/2003 10:14:43 AM PDT by
snopercod
(Most people are so busy doing what they think they should do that they never do what they want to do)
To: sigSEGV
Wait a minute. Maybe I don't understand.
If I have ZoneAlarm set to disallow "mobile code" from a website, then you're saying that it can execute anyway?
28 posted on
09/28/2003 10:16:36 AM PDT by
snopercod
(Most people are so busy doing what they think they should do that they never do what they want to do)
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