On Thursday 28 Aug 2003 9:24 pm, HaywireMac wrote: > 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.
If all an intruder can see is my router ip, how can it compromise my system? Anne
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