But, you avoided the part of the question Fred asked about the security
policy or AUP, do they address such services in the work enviroment?
Thanks,
Ron Dufresne
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Dan McGinn-Combs wrote:
> I am also interested in blocking this kind of access. The primary security
> reason is that people tend to view this as a secure form of private
> communication between two people. As a result they tend to share
> confidential information that should not be transmitted over a clear channel
> using a non-company resources and servers. People just don't think about
> what they are doing.
>
> Surf Control has some wonderful capability to stop connections in their
> tracks, but I'm not sure even it can pick an AOL messenger message out of
> the soup on port 80.
>
> Dan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frederick M Avolio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wed, January 24, 2001 3:50 PM
> To: Andrew Tseng; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Re: Blocking AOL Messenger
>
>
> I sometimes teach classes, so I am interested in knowing why you are
> blocking it. What are you concerned about? Also, does the corporate
> security policy or acceptable use policy address it?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Fred
>
> At 02:45 PM 1/24/01 -0500, Andrew Tseng wrote:
> >Hi:
> > My company uses Checkpoint FW-1 4.0 running in a NT 4.0 box. Is
> > there any way to block users using AOL messenger ? I blocked AOL
> > messenger default port:5190 but it swithed to other ports such as 53, 23
> > or 25 which have to be opened. Also, connections of AOL logon host
> > "login.oscar.aol.com" and AOL Netblock "64.12.149.0", "152.163.180.0"
> > are disallowed. However, I still see users happy using AOL messenger
> > which really discourage me. Could anyone give me some ideas how to block
> > AOL Msgr? Should I block AOL Msgr by port or address basis or I have to
> > buy third-party SW like WebSense or SurfControl? Any comments will be
> > appreciated.
> >
> >
> >Andrew Tseng
> >
> >Ikegami Electronics USA
> >37 Brook Ave
> >Maywood, NJ07607
> >
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