yeah, i remember reading about that as well.. I like steve gibson, he is a very smart man (I think anyone that can program assembly is smart), so what, he is a tad melodramatic... if it gets the point across, good on him..
As to the firewalls, as I remember it, he had good stuff to say about all of them except Black Ice and that was just on trojans and stuff.. As for XP, it has continued the fine M$ tradation of big exploits.. but it has no where near the marketshare that 98 has, so maybe we have to wait a while.. :-) If someone writes a nimda or klez or whatever that spoofs its IP, then perhaps the chaos you long for will ensue... :-) rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of RichardA Sent: Wednesday, 16 October 2002 4:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Security alert Roman Korcek, Tuesday 15 October 2002 11:47: > Hi, > > >>if you still think that Black Ice Defender is a good firewall have a look > >> at this website http://www.grc.com and see what results it had when > >> tested. > >> > >>having BID installed on your windowz machine can be even worse that > >> having no firewall at all (i.e. false sense of security). when you need > >> a firewall, ZoneAlarm is the choice. > > > > i did indeed go to the site below and my Black Ice Defender proved > > completely stealthy. thank you.......... > > It is not a problem with inbound traffic (which you probably tested), > it's a problem with outbound traffic. > > http://grc.com/lt/leaktest.htm > and > http://grc.com/lt/bidresponse.htm Although ZoneAlarm is a good software firewall, grc.com is not the place to go for unbiased information about it. BTW, Steve Gibson was frothing at the mouth before Win XP was released, saying because it could spoof packets the whole web would crash and burn... It didn't. He likes CAPITALS and MELODRAMA. RichardA
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