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Re: [SLE] SUSE Firewall not like ZoneAlarm...
- From: Adam Tauno Williams <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:18:09 -0500
- Message-id: <1142259490.8280.12.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> I tend to disagree. I can write the OP a nice little tool that will
> do what ZoneAlarm does, monitor outgoing traffic and ask the user when
> an app wants to connect the outside, but that will only give him a
> false sense of security, because he is applying Windows tactics to
> Linux, so he is looking for the problems in the wrong place.
A firewall tool that will pop-up when disallowed traffic is detected and
ask if you want to permit it would be EXTREMELY handy, for lots of
reasons other than spyware/whatnot. It would make running a workstation
with good firewall settings much more convenient - java applets, various
apps, etc... may want to make perfectly legitimate network connections
that a user or the administrator did not forsee.
> do what ZoneAlarm does, monitor outgoing traffic and ask the user when
> an app wants to connect the outside, but that will only give him a
> false sense of security, because he is applying Windows tactics to
> Linux, so he is looking for the problems in the wrong place.
A firewall tool that will pop-up when disallowed traffic is detected and
ask if you want to permit it would be EXTREMELY handy, for lots of
reasons other than spyware/whatnot. It would make running a workstation
with good firewall settings much more convenient - java applets, various
apps, etc... may want to make perfectly legitimate network connections
that a user or the administrator did not forsee.
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