Re: SOT: TB!-aware firewall
Grettings Alastair, On Tuesday, 1st January 2002, at 22:37 GMT + (01.01.2002 / 23:37 my local time), Alastair Scott wrote concerning SOT: TB!-aware firewall: On 1 January 2002 at 7:09 pm Alan wrote: I just loaded the page and haven't looked at it yet. So I thought I'd ask this out of ignorance anyway (LOL). Is this Outpost any better than, say, ZoneAlarm - also freeware? Does it pass the tests at www.grc.com (such as the Shields Up! and more importantly the Leak Test)? I have to wonder what the preset rules are.. All I can think of is that it allows TB to send and retrieve mail even if the Internet is Locked (if Outpost has such a feature as ZA). No is the one-word answer ;) I have to agree to Alastair. I installed Outpost and tested it on grc.com. It worked fine and gave 100% stealth, also the Ad-Blocker was fine. However, after half an hour of using it, my whole internet connection froze. I rebooted, but again after half an hour I was cut off from internet. So I uninstalled it again (not that outpost it is still a release candidate only). Personally I use TinyFireWall (http://www.tinysoftware.com/home/tiny). P.S.: Sorry for the OT mail. -- Best regards Matthias Frost __ 02.01.2002 17:58 [+0100 GMT] -- Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Vers: 1.53d FAQ: http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
SOT: TB!-aware firewall
Just to note that the new Agnitum Outpost [Free] firewall* knows of The Bat! - it has preset rules for it, as I found out to my surprise when I first tried to retrieve email with the firewall installed. (Quite what these preset rules _mean_ is to be determined; I've never seen a firewall with so many options ...). Alastair * http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpostfree.html -- Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Vers: 1.53d FAQ: http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
Re: SOT: TB!-aware firewall
Tuesday, January 01, 2002, 5:49:14 AM, Alastair Scott wrote: Just to note that the new Agnitum Outpost [Free] firewall* knows of The Bat! - it has preset rules for it, as I found out to my surprise when I first tried to retrieve email with the firewall installed. I just loaded the page and haven't looked at it yet. So I thought I'd ask this out of ignorance anyway (LOL). Is this Outpost any better than, say, ZoneAlarm - also freeware? Does it pass the tests at www.grc.com (such as the Shields Up! and more importantly the Leak Test)? I have to wonder what the preset rules are.. All I can think of is that it allows TB to send and retrieve mail even if the Internet is Locked (if Outpost has such a feature as ZA). -- - Alan Poulton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Using The Bat! v1.53d on Windows 98 4.90 Build 3000 -- Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Vers: 1.53d FAQ: http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
Re[2]: SOT: TB!-aware firewall
On 1 January 2002 at 7:09 pm Alan wrote: I just loaded the page and haven't looked at it yet. So I thought I'd ask this out of ignorance anyway (LOL). Is this Outpost any better than, say, ZoneAlarm - also freeware? Does it pass the tests at www.grc.com (such as the Shields Up! and more importantly the Leak Test)? I have to wonder what the preset rules are.. All I can think of is that it allows TB to send and retrieve mail even if the Internet is Locked (if Outpost has such a feature as ZA). No is the one-word answer ;) As it turns out, I removed it because it forgets all the settings after restarting the machine, and turns out to be too complex for not enough gain. So I didn't have the chance to do the Gibson tests, much as I'd have liked to. It guesses what an application is trying to do on first connection to The Internet and applies rules from templates (either specific ones such as The Bat! or generic ones such as browser). Unfortunately it sometimes guesses wrongly and undoing the mistake is awkward ... I noted that, for some reason, the TB! log file is shorter when Outpost is installed, which suggests that a transparent proxy or similar is making its presence felt (there are various ad filters and other plugins). From bad experiences with such transparent proxies before (specifically Panda AntiVirus) this is not a good thing. Alastair -- Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Vers: 1.53d FAQ: http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
