-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Here are a few of your software choices that may be of some use to your corporation: McAfee Desktop Firewall McAfee Firewall Sygate Personal Firewall Pro Norton Personal Firewall 2002 There may be some more that meet the specific needs of your environmental concerns. I had done some testing here at home in regards to a few firewall choices at one time......ZA seemed to drop alot more packets as the bandwidth availability factor was decreased. I fired up a couple of C scripts and through a bunch of data through the firewalls. The processing engine used by both ZA and McAfee had less than desireable results. BTW...there is a full firewall buyers guide released by the 'International Computer Security Association' every year. This may be of some help to you. Feel free to email me with any questions and/or comments that i may be able to help you with. On Tuesday 17 September 2002 21:06, L. Mark Stone wrote:
Thomas,
OK, please name them, because I'd like to find out more about them. Currently I am the CIO of a global trading company in New York City, and every laptop we issue we configure with Zone Alarm. If there's a better product, I want to know about it!
On Tuesday, September 17, 2002 10:02 pm, Thomas Jones wrote:
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This statement by far is very inaccurate. I can off the top of my head.....name at least four more that perform different types of internal traffic auhtorization.
IMHO...ZA is a decent remedy for the average user. But, the majority of advanced users will probably be happier with more technically efficient firewall structures.
On Tuesday 17 September 2002 20:37, L. Mark Stone wrote:
Zone Alarm is made by Zone Labs (http://www.zonelabs.com) and it is a fine product. It is the only software firewall I know for Windows that blocks OUTGOING traffic as well as incoming traffic, thereby providing an extra level of protection in the event your Windows PC is already compromised.
Steve Gibson wrote a review of Windows software firewalls. His site is http://www.grc.com.
Windows is less secure than Linux out of the box, that's why Zone Labs makes lots of money selling Zone Alarm!
Windows with Zone Alarm properly configured is pretty darn secure. You may need to argue semantics with your friend to win your bet here!
On Tuesday, September 17, 2002 05:31 pm, Jon Biddell wrote:
I've been issued with a challenge.....
A friend has just put satellite internet access in, and is running a firewall called "ZoneAlarm" (or Zonealert, can't remember). He's got a fixed IP, and has challenged me to prove that Windows is less secure than Linux by breaking into his machine and leaving a non-destructive message in his AUTOEXEC.BAT file...:-)
Then I can talk to him about converting to Linux...:-)
Anyone have any clues about this program ? I've tried all the obvious telnet / ssh tricks, and no go.
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