Unless the external hardware is vulnerable to attack. Which some is, and the quality is seriously lacking on some router hardware. What about a virus that infects your computer, then attacks your router, changes its configuration to allow incoming connections.. I'm sure it will happen.
-miah On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 10:09:46AM -0500, John Orthoefer wrote: > It comes down to the halting problem. So you can write a virus that > disables zone alarm, zone alarm can't stop all virus. > > External hardware is harder to for a virus to infect than something like > zonealarm. > > johno > > Eric smith wrote: > > >Just as an aside to these points, I believe there already has been a > >virus that altered the "allowed" software list for zonealarm. I > >believe zonealarm now protects against this (probably > >encrypts/checksums the list.) > > > _______________________________________________ > bblisa mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa > _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
