On Friday 10 March 2006 18:05, Daniel Bauer wrote:
As much as I understand it (and I don't understand very much :-) ) the SUSE-firewall doesn't care abaout which application is using a specific port, so in my opinion it could easily be possible for a maleficent program to get an internet connection.
maleficient? Please tell me you got that from babelfish :) Yes it's easy for a program to get internet access in linux, SuSEfirewall2 won't block outgoing connections by default. If you worry about these things, you might want to look at AppArmor, which is included by default in 10.0 and can block much more than just network access zonealarm isn't exactly the solution. It's not too difficult to defeat, so the only thing you get from it is a false sense of security. If you're worried about outgoing connections, the only real solution is to only run software you trust. -- Certified: Yes. Certifiable: of course! jabber ID: anders@rydsbo.net