Thanks, Chris. The original post, to which I responded, referred not to IPNetRouter but to Sustainable Software's other main product, IPNetSentry, and it was the latter that was the subject of trashing in the MacUser review. Don't recall any great criticism of IPNetRouter, which as far as I know does exactly what it says on the box.
NetSentry just seems to have been overtaken, although one hopes a review like that will act as an encouragement to the author. > >>Seems to me that the risks are pretty moderate for dial-up users, but >>potentially much greater when permanently connected via cable. At the >>least I would like to see all ports stealthed. Sustainable Software's >>offering does not offer that protection. > >That's odd... I ran IPNetRouter for a long time at work, and it always >stealthed all ports that I did not specifically open for forward. Again to clarify, the criticism was that IPNetSentry left several ports visible whereas three other software firewalls stealthed all. But you may well be right and the review missed the honey pot point. All things being equal I would rather not be the subject of script kiddy experimentation in the first place. I am still trying to get my System Preferences to open after an intervention by one of my small children (any ideas anyone? I am running OS10.3.8) Bestest Julian ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
