Just get a cheapo Linux box and set up NAT and IP Masquerading. ICQ will
still work just fine, and no one will be able to connect directly to any
port on your machine. They hit the Linux box and pretty much don't have
anywhere to go from there.
Todd
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jennifer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 9:46 AM
Subject: RE: McAfee - Don't make the mistake I did...
| At 08:37 AM 6/8/2001 -0400, you wrote:
| >I'm getting Zonealarm today. McAfee Firewall is a royal piece of dog
crap.
| >First, it drained my graphics memory (I'm sure you've seen apps before
that
| >have odd affects on the GUI), secondly it never remembered the apps I
| >trusted with net acces, thirdly, and this is a cardinal sin, the damn
| >'Firewall Status' window kept reappearing even after I closed the window,
| >and lastly, it absolutely would not let ICQ out.
|
| You might remember that while I was living in my best friend's house I
| wasn't able to send files to you through ICQ and I had serious issues even
| getting messages out. I think we both had to send through the server to
| talk to each other. That was a firewall issue and that firewall was set up
| by a professional security admin. He managed to get ICQ reasonably stable
| but I couldn't connect directly to any linux or BSD users. ICQ is a mess.
|
| If I remember correctly, ICQ uses ranges of ports for each action and
| selects randomly from that range of ports for each time that you do
| something. That makes it almost impossible to predict which port will be
| used to send messages. In order to allow free use of ICQ, you may as well
| open every port in the firewall, which sorta defeats the purpose of having
| a firewall in the first place. It's one of the most problematic pieces of
| software to use through a firewall. But we love it anyway.
|
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