Re: Symantec Buys @stake

[Jan Muenther <jan.muenther () nruns com>]

hey Halvar,

> btw, regarding Symantec: Has anyone ever seen a Symantec FW in the
> wild ? It is the artist formerly known as "Raptor", and I have vivid
> memories of it screwing up my OS's network stack majorly two or
> three years ago (which made me move to not install software I look 
> at outside a VM any more)...

Indeed, I have. On Win32, it's probably the worst firewalling solution ever, 
the only one I know that you don't have to find any DoS vulnerabilties for since
it'll just DoS itself every once in a while. 

Anyway, it's still around, yet I doubt they increased their market share since
the Axent days - probably mostly old clients who just bought into the updates 
with one of the popular support plans. 

You're also right about the IP-stack f**kups - it actually replaced a lot of 
that and didn't change it for the better (predictable ISN etc., which isn't much
of a change on win32 anyway). 

If you need the names of sites that run it, send me a mail :)

Cheers, J.
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