On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 20:13:45 +0100 Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> I fail to see the joke, too. When I used to run it I used the on-line > > checkers, and got nothing back but my router address. What joke? Because it is *on* the machine it is trying to protect. You compromise the machine with a trojan, you compromise ZoneAlarm. Sorry, maybe joke was too harsh a word, but as I've stated, ZoneAlarm will not protect you as well as a dedicated firewall, or even as well as Shorewall, simply because it is not designed to deal with sophisticated attacks like trojans that can execute code on your system, thereby negating any protection ZoneAlarm would have presumably offered. Shorewall/IPTables offers a far more robust and subtle level of protection because it can actually read the header info of incoming and outgoing packets. AFAIK, ZoneAlarm cannot. -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: nodex.sytes.net ++++++++++++++++++++++ It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations.
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