> 2) socks can be used by a variety of other client software as well. I don't know much about socks, but can it support things like realplayer, internet phone, etc? My impression is that socks is good for access control, but you have to set everything on the client side. (Well, I could be wrong on this.) On the other hand, with packet filter firewall you don't have to do anything on the client side, just set the default gateway...
> Of course, the *real* solution is to just not use ICQ... but the same can be > said for shooting heroin, but do they ever listen? Nooooooo! :) I heard that icq wasn't designed with security in mind from the beginning. It's just that it has too many users that other similar software can hardly compete with it. But the idea was great. -- Guoqiang Dai [EMAIL PROTECTED]