Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1425 mails)

[Anders Johansson <ajohansson@xxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 06 May 2009 21:11:02 Jim Henderson wrote:
> Yeah, and which is the more critical part of an OS installation, the
> actual OS installation, or the data that a user stores under their own
> username?
>
> Reinstalling the OS takes, what, 45 minutes?  Recovering lost data
> because of a rogue app can take much longer, especially on personal home
> systems because most users don't do backups of their data on their home
> machines.  Yes, they should, but that's not really the point.

ZoneAlarm's big idea is to protect against outgoing connections. In other 
words, when it steps in with its "unique" features, it's already too late

To prevent applications from opening illicit outgoing connections, run it with 
apparmor, which is capable of preventing an application from doing just about 
anything that you haven't previously allowed.

The normal iptables based firewall is enough to protect against incoming 
connections.

Anders
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