ZoneAlarm is worthless. It's nothing more than a socket guardian, it listens for the opening and closing of sockets and asks if you want to allow it.
It doesn't protect you from anything that proper configuration can. Disable NetBIOS, stay up to date with patches, and there's nothing to remotely attack. ZoneAlarm is doing nothing but making you more susceptible to DoS attacks due to it's low threshhold, and screaming everytime an ICMP or UDP packet comes your way. >From: "Ian Gomeche" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: "Ian Gomeche" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: zone alarm personal firewall >Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 18:50:13 +0100 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Received: from [209.182.195.144] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id >MHotMailBD98620A00A54136E80FD1B6C390EA7C0; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 10:53:27 -0700 >Received: from lists.gnac.net (localhost [127.0.0.1])by lists.gnac.net >(Postfix) with ESMTPid C8B2D10538; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 10:51:28 -0700 (PDT) >Received: from c2bapps2.btconnect.com (c2bapps2.btconnect.com >[193.113.209.22])by lists.gnac.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 09212103C5for ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 10:50:02 -0700 (PDT) >Received: from oemcomputer (actually host >host217-32-142-252.hg.mdip.bt.net) by c2bapps2 with SMTP (XT-PP); Thu, 18 >Oct 2001 18:49:50 +0100 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu, 18 Oct 2001 10:53:58 -0700 >Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Message-ID: <01b501c157fd$580130e0$838f20d9@oemcomputer> >X-Priority: 3 >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 >X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 >Precedence: bulk >List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=help> >List-Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >List-Subscribe: ><http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls>,<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=subscribe> >List-Id: Firewalls <firewalls.lists.gnac.net> >List-Unsubscribe: ><http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls>,<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe> >List-Archive: <http://lists.gnac.net/pipermail/firewalls/> > >i am sure that this has been discussed before , but has anyone any views on >the personal firewall zone alarm?. i am not connected to a network and have >dial up access to my ISP and will have until our exchange is upgraded to >handle broadband in december 2002. i am currently using the free basic zone >alarm product which i quite like. is it any good though? also , what >benefit would there be in upgrading to the professional version which costs >40 dollars ? > >thanks > >ian > >_______________________________________________ >Firewalls mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp _______________________________________________ Firewalls mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls
