nothing much... i was just Tested stuffs on Zone Alarm Pro 6.0.667.000 i bunped into something intresting. A test program 'evil.exe' went to a infinite recursive loop. No wounder, soon the system out of memory..... but my BIG surprise vsmon.exe CRASHED ( testing on winxp sp2, with Admin privilage) I manage to KILL the process of EVIL.exe & system returned to normal functioning.... but FIREWALL DOWN!
huh! -bipin On 10/4/05, Debasis Mohanty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey AZ, > > Andrei Zlate-Podani wrote: > >> A firewall has to do with network traffic. All this talk about "bypassing > firewall x or y using this > >> trick or that one" is sheer nonsense. > > I just noticed "@bitdefender.com" in your ID and I am sure you must be > knowing better than me in all aspect as far as AV / Firewall goes. > Unfortunately I have to exaplain you that ZA Pro and its siblings are much > more than normal personal fw which even includes many of those > functionalities which takes care of most of the local OS based attacks and > even much more. > > >> It is not the job of a firewall to track all the relations of executables > and/or API calls in the system. > > You are right as long as you are talking about old school days firewalls... > ;-) I would like to suggest you give a shot to ZA Pro / Internet Security > Suit once most of your doubts about current days fw will be clear :) > > >> I never heard anybody complaining that iptables allows a script execute > Conqueror to communicate with a server. > > Is it ?? What a coincidence, Infact me too never heard :P > > > >> Use an antivirus program or an IDS for this job. > > Nice suggestion !!! Which products are you going to suggest to the home pc > users and corporate end-users?? > > > >> Andrei > > Bah ... D > ------ Bipin Gautam Zeroth law of security: The possibility of poking a system from lower privilege is zero unless & until there is possibility of direct, indirect or consequential communication between the two...
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