13 Mar
2006
13 Mar
'06
14:18
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.