What is/are the significent difference/s between dropping and rejecting
TCP packets? Does the fact that the firewall rejected rather than dropped
the packets portend something "evil" could happen?
Thanks!
On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, James Proffer wrote:
> I've installed it on Win98. It seems to work pretty well in that on the
> high security setting it blocks everyting. One oddity I've noticed is
> that it rejects TCP packets to ports 53 and 67 instead of dropping them.
>
> Bad Things: The first time I started the RealAudio player I got what
> seemed like a deadly embrace between the client trying to check real.com
> for updates and the ZoneAlarm popup window asking whether or not this
> contact would be allowed. Had to cold boot my machine. The next time I
> tried to use the real player my PC rebooted itself. :-( Since then there
> have been no problems.
>
>
> On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, rj wrote:
>
> > Anyone know anything about ZoneAlarm, good, bad (esp. bad), whatever?
> > TIA
> >
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