-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Kai Ponte schreef: | On Sunday 17 February 2008 09:55:53 pm Basil Chupin wrote: |>> Is ZoneAlarm, and similar, capable of preventing back-door traffic, |>> both inbound and outbound, inbuilt into Windows systems? |>> | | Short answer, no. | | ZA is a very untrustworthy application. I wouldn't touch it with the | proverbial ten foot pole. | | | Of course, a hardware firewall is the best protection against any attack. A | good router should have firewall software built in. | | Second - and often in line with the hardware fireall - would be software. | | I use Outpost on my Wintendo machine at home. | | http://www.agnitum.com/ | | I've heard good reviews (from known derelict types) of Kapersky ( | http://usa.kaspersky.com/products_services/internet-security.php ) and even | LavaSoft ( | http://www.lavasoftusa.com/products/lavasoft_personal_firewall.php ). | | There's no reason ever to go with Zone Alarm, Norton or McAffee. | | | Sorry for the OT post, but I know many of you probably still use Wintendo out | there. | | Sorry to mix in the ongoing conversation, but as i experience time after time, is that if, and i say if you want to use XP and want to benefit from the good sides of it, (there are some good sides), or simply because you are forced to use it, you *have* to keep some external apps present, to keep everything going as smooth as possible, and as fast as possible. You do not have to believe me, but i assure you, you can. These are: 1) A good firewall, which is sygate an old Norton firewall that is *free*, and that warns you and asks you if you grant or denie to let specified traffic in or out. 2) Virusscanner, Avast, which is very good, and also *free*. 3) Adaware&adwatch, from Lavasoft, there are free versions that work ok, the definition file gets updated regularly. 4) Registry Mechanic, which is not free, but not extremely expensive for the job it does, but absolutely nessesary, if you aint got all day before widnose has been started up, to keep your registry free from deleted or unsaved changes, forgotten by XP(ert), and where it is looking for, for hours and hours. RM lets your XP run as a new. Weekly, an XP user has to: 1) Clean the registry, 2) Defragment the drives that change the most, And if the firewall, adwatch, and avast are set properly, nothing is gonna harm you, except the windows updates: you have to check carefull for the genuine advantage 'updates', if you use an unlicensed version. Sygate firewall, lets you choose *all* traffic, from every changed DLL, to every piece of software that wants to acces the internet, our your pc. You can choose to grant only once, or remember decision, grant or denie. You can lock-up all traffic with one click, if nessesary. You can test the safety of your *backdoors* by it if you like. - -- Have a nice day, M9. Now, is the only time that exists. ~ OS: Linux 2.6.22.17-0.1-default x86_64 ~ Huidige gebruiker: monkey9@AMD64x2-sfn1 ~ Systeem: openSUSE 10.3 (x86_64) ~ KDE: 3.5.7 "release 72.6" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHuVh/X5/X5X6LpDgRAosvAKCS5bVVRk11us62wq+EAPNlzY9vvwCglQTc gy6DQiHyegLq6VJcbZK2Z7k= =ZmNH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org