Re: FN-FORUM Firewalls - ZoneAlarm

date posted 18th July 2001 16:26

cheers folks...is it easy to set up?

Robin Garbutt
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Norman Beresford" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 4:10 PM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM Firewalls - ZoneAlarm


> 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]
> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> 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?
> >
> > Robin Garbutt
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> > 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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