Does linux firewall (iptables) do that per-application type of blocking? For incoming traffic, it seems to be able to map packets to a given service. But I don't know about outgoing packets.
Kevin On 8/15/05, Aylesworth Marc A Ctr AFRL/IFSE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The windows firewall is not intended to be a stand alone solution. It only > blocks ports, firewalls now map ports to applications and only allow that > port to be used by that application. I use kerio personal firewall which is > a free download. > > http://www.kerio.com/kerio.html > > Thanks > > Marc Aylesworth > > C3I Associates > > AFRL/IFSE > > Joint Battlespace Infosphere Team > > 525 Brooks Rd > > Rome, NY 13441-4505 > > Tel:315.330.2422 > > Fax:315.330.7009 > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin > Toppenberg > Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 4:03 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Hardhats-members] Re: Warning about Zone Alarm > > With windows XP built in firewall, I wonder if Zone Alarm is as needed > now as it was in the past. > > Kevin > > > On 8/15/05, James Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday my Zone Alarm software gave me a notice that an upgrade was > > available that I was entitled to since I had paid for a one year license. > > > So I did the upgrade, much to my regret. It broke Cache. Cache would > not > > start at all and it did not leave an error in the cconsole.log. I have > > spent countless hours since Saturday with a lot of help today from > > Intersystems support trying to resolve this problem. Thanks to Rath and > > Rich at Intersystems, Cache is now working again on my Windows XP > computer. > > I sent a message to Zone Labs and have received no reply from them. I > > should add that this the second time that Zone Alarm has broken Cache for > > me. The first time was an easy fix. This time it was a mess. I do not > > know what Zone Alarm was doing to cause the problem. I will also add > that > > Zone Alarm also caused Photoshop to crash the first time I tried to start > > it. However, Photoshop seemed to work fine after starting it a second > time. > > I presume that for both Cache and Photoshop that Zone Alarm's attempts > to > > block certain software behavior until you train it was the problem. With > > Photoshop there was only one or two of the warnings that popped up. With > > Cache there must have been 20 or more. I will probably try to live with > > Zone Alarm until my license expires, but I will not upgrade it again. I > > would strongly recommend against using Zone Alarm on a system that is > > running Cache. > > > > Jim Gray > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices > Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA > Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices > Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA > Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
