Before throwing out some of your weekly twinkie and soda change, check out the firewall faq http://www.interhack.net/pubs/fwfaq/. Pretty informative and well detailed. BlackIce, it is great watching it collect data if you have a DSL, blocks the normal ports, another cheapie product that alerts you when someone rattles your doorknobs and rattles your windows is : http://www.nfr.net/products/bof/. An excerpt for their web page: BackOfficer Friendly NFR? BackOfficer Friendly is a useful little burglar alarm - simple, unobtrusive, and easy to install - which rings when someone rattles your doorknob. It identifies attacks from Back Orifice, one of the nastier hacking applications currently being perpetrated on the Internet, as well as other sorts of scans. For a little more than $10.00 you can't go wrong.. There are plenty of books on the Firewalls, etc, etc. There are a couple that are considered the classics: Firewall and Internet Security, William R. Cheswick ad Steven M. Bellovin, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., ISBN 0-201-63357-4. Building Internet Firewalls, Brent Chapman and Elizabeth Zwicky, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., ISBN 1-56592-124-0 P.S. NFR I hope this helps. :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/28/00 09:13 PM To: cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The BlackIce El-cheep-o wall. Anyone have any opinions on the el-cheep-o fire walls ??? Such as BlackIce vs conseal PC..or any others that are out there? >From looking at Black Ice it looks like it it probably has weak points...and is not very informative. Does this low buck stuff work? or is it best to setup with a couple proxy's and a MDZ area? Thanks, Alex - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/28/00 09:13 PM To: cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The BlackIce El-cheep-o wall. Anyone have any opinions on the el-cheep-o fire walls ??? Such as BlackIce vs conseal PC..or any others that are out there? >From looking at Black Ice it looks like it it probably has weak points...and is not very informative. Does this low buck stuff work? or is it best to setup with a couple proxy's and a MDZ area? Thanks, Alex - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.] - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]
