Hi Tyler,
> Now, are you running a personal firewall on your machine as well?
Yes. I wouldn't connect a machine to a network of any kind without some kind
of firewall, at home or work.
> If so, did anything get let through?
Nothing has got through my firewall (that I know of) since I first
>I've been able to run any TCP/IP program I like on my PC once I'm on AOL.
I've also had
>scans hit me from everything, from netbus to nimda. AFAIK, AOL does not
protect the user
>from the Internet. You have to do that yourself.
Now, are you running a personal firewall on your machine as well?
I apologize for taking so long to respond on this...I was at a conference
the end of last week and could not get to my mail.
To answer Mark's previous question on what traffic it allows through, I was
able to ping the AOL IP address, but Zone Alarm caught it and blocked it
(as it should). I ha
Hi Mark,
Mark Medici wrote:
*snip*
> My questions are:
>
> a.) Is there anyway to use AOL without opening a tunnel for unknown
> and unmonitored external traffic? I.e., are all the features of
> AOL (e-mail, AOL-only content, etc...) available using only a
> web browser?
In
At 08:46 PM 11/08/2001 -0500, Mark Medici wrote:
> >From what I've found so far, it seems that the AOL client program, when
>installed, also installs something called the AOL Network Adapter. I've
>seen this on some client machines, and always wondered what it was
>doing. Now I realize that it i
Forgive my ignorance, but I'm not very familiar with how AOL use network
connections. I've used AIM, and I'm aware of the well-known ports
5190-5193 needed to support AIM as well as the full AOL client program.
>From what I've found so far, it seems that the AOL client program, when
installed, a
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From: "Hudak, Tyler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 8:56 AM
Subject: CERT paper and AOL VPN?
> I tried to verify this over the weekend with no success. To do this, I
> loaded ZoneAlarm on my test machine (running Windo
