Kai Ponte wrote:
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.
Thanks for that, Kai. I will follow-up on this. There is an excellent FREE firewall called *Comodo* but when started it asks question about each and every file being executed (it's in its "learning" stage) that I uninstalled it because I didn't have the time to answer the Qs :-) . Ciao. -- I was very heavily into pornography. Then my pornograph broke. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org