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Re: Unsecure file permission of ZoneAlarm pro.
From: Birl <sbirl () temple edu>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 13:54:33 -0400 (EDT)
On Aug 20, bipin gautam (nospam-visitbipin () yahoo com ns) typed: bipin: > On Friday 20 August 2004 12:40, John LaCour wrote: bipin: > > There is absolutely no security issue here. bipin: > > bipin: > > ZoneAlarm does not rely on file permissions to protect bipin: > > any configuration files. Configuration files are protected bipin: > > by our TrueVector(r) driver in the kernel. bipin: > bipin: > Which is, of course, completely utterly infallible bipin: > so any additional means are bipin: > not only unneccessary, but even unwanted. bipin: bipin: In my part of globe, 90% of dialup users just turn on bipin: zone alarm pro. JUST before connecting to the bipin: internet... cauz its too annoying cauz zap pop's up bipin: with bla...bla...bla quit often and use resources bipin: etc... bipin: bipin: bipin Aye. ZA Pro does consume quite a bit of the CPU at times. Im consdering a hardware fw just for that reason. There are other things about logging that concern me as well. But that's different topic. Scott Birl http://concept.temple.edu/sysadmin/ Senior Systems Administrator Computer Services Temple University ====*====*====*====*====*====*====*====+====*====*====*====*====*====*====*====* _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
Current thread:
- Unsecure file permission of ZoneAlarm pro. bipin gautam (Aug 19)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Unsecure file permission of ZoneAlarm pro. John LaCour (Aug 20)
- Re: Unsecure file permission of ZoneAlarm pro. Maarten (Aug 20)
- Re: Unsecure file permission of ZoneAlarm pro. bipin gautam (Aug 20)
- RE: Unsecure file permission of ZoneAlarm pro. Sean Crawford (Aug 20)
- Re: Unsecure file permission of ZoneAlarm pro. Birl (Aug 20)
- Re: Unsecure file permission of ZoneAlarm pro. Maarten (Aug 20)
- Re: Unsecure file permission of ZoneAlarm pro. James Tucker (Aug 20)
- Re: Unsecure file permission of ZoneAlarm pro. stephane nasdrovisky (Aug 21)
- Re: Unsecure file permission of ZoneAlarm pro. James Tucker (Aug 21)
- Re: Unsecure file permission of ZoneAlarm pro. (ZA will fail to load) bipin gautam (Aug 22)
- Re: Unsecure file permission of ZoneAlarm pro. (ZA will fail to load) Chris Smith (Aug 23)
- Re: Unsecure file permission of ZoneAlarm pro. (ZA will fail to load) James Greenhalgh (Aug 23)
- Re: Unsecure file permission of ZoneAlarm pro. (ZA will fail to load) Barrie Dempster (Aug 23)
- Re: Unsecure file permission of ZoneAlarm pro. (ZA will fail to load) Barrie Dempster (Aug 23)
- Re: Unsecure file permission of ZoneAlarm pro. (ZA will fail to load) bipin gautam (Aug 23)
- Re: Unsecure file permission of ZoneAlarm pro. (ZA will fail to load) bipin gautam (Aug 22)