Re: FN-FORUM Firewalls - ZoneAlarm

date posted 18th July 2001 16:07

Basically Rob, yes. And not only shaft your work but use your computer to
launch attacks against other people as well.

TBH the chances of it happening are still quite slim, but not desperately
so. Zone Alarm is free (www.zonelabs.com) so you really might as well
download it and install it now.

Norman


----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Garbutt" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 3:38 PM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM Firewalls - ZoneAlarm


> I may seem really thick here cos I know nothing about firewalls...until
this
> afternoon...but are you all saying that when I log on through a 56K modem,
> some 13 yearold could climb aboard my pc and shaft all me work from the
last
> year?....SHITE...where do I sign for this windows proxy/zone alert
> software?
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Ebdon" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 3:21 PM
> Subject: RE: FN-FORUM Firewalls - ZoneAlarm
>
>
> > This talk scared me into checking my Proxy Server protection and
basically
> > it was crap. It's good for controlling Web and main access on a user
> basis
> > but not much cop at protecting you from the outside or from dodgy
torojan
> > horses trying to connect to the outside world.
> >
> > I've just installed the trial version of ZoneAlarm Pro 2.6 on top of
Proxy
> > Server on Win 2K and it seems great. It asks for confirmation before
any
> > program or network is allowed connection to the Internet. It also
> > successfully blocked all of the 'probings' from grc.com.
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > Pete
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