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RE: FW: BlackIce Defender???
From: "Butler, Gary" <butlerg () gillem-emh1 army mil>
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 16:15:46 -0400
If you know what port Netmeeting goes out on you ought to be able to configure it to allow that by editing the Firewall.ini. I've done that so my FTP and HTTP server work. Gary Butler -----Original Message----- From: Noller, Gregory [mailto:Noller2G () kochind com] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 1999 3:49 PM To: 'Rick Smith'; R. DuFresne Cc: Butler, Gary; firewall-wizards () nfr net Subject: RE: FW: BlackIce Defender??? I have machine on rr.com cable service at home running BOF, BlackIce Defender, and @Guard (recently acquired by Norton/Symantec). I get alerted every day, and every night, to port scans, BackOrifice probes, and pcAnywhere probes by all three. It's constant, and it's usually pretty close to me geographically. Probably on the same "segment" or whatever. Funny though...put a snifferr on and the packets are all screwey: 24.94.x.x is what ipconfig says my local machine address is, but the sniffer records the local address to be a 10.x.x.x address. Weird. Anyway...I find @Guard to be more configureable, but "harder" to use (wife hates it). Black Ice has only four positions so wife likes it (but she turns it off to establish a NetMeeting video call - then forgets to turn it back on) and I dislike it's lack of granularity and poor logging. Greg Noller Wichita On Tuesday,October 26,1999 2:49 PM, Rick Smith [SMTP:rick_smith () securecomputing com] wrote:
At 02:27 PM 10/26/99 -0500, R. DuFresne wrote:I musty be really confused, backofficer is a firewall? I thought it was merely a port listener, comprable to netcat or nukenabber, but hardly a fully functional firewall utility of any sort...Point taken. I think there's something really smart about combining a port listener with a personal firewall. Maybe it's too geeky for the masses,
but
I like the notion of combining the otherwise silent protection of port blocking with the feedback of a port listener. If Black Ice did the right thing with the GUI, it may well be a winner. What kinds of experiences have people had with "personal firewalls?" Personally I've generally either lived behind a hairy chested corporate 'wall or I've done without at home. Rick. smith () securecomputing com "Internet Cryptography" at http://www.visi.com/crypto/
Current thread:
- Re: FW: BlackIce Defender???, (continued)
- Re: FW: BlackIce Defender??? Craig H. Rowland (Oct 28)
- Re: FW: BlackIce Defender??? R. DuFresne (Oct 27)
- Re: FW: BlackIce Defender??? Crispin Cowan (Oct 27)
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- Re: FW: BlackIce Defender??? (and CVE again) Adam Shostack (Oct 28)
- Re: FW: BlackIce Defender??? Robert Graham (Oct 27)
- Re: FW: BlackIce Defender??? Rick Smith (Oct 27)
- RE: FW: BlackIce Defender??? Anton J Aylward (Oct 27)
- Re: FW: BlackIce Defender??? Rick Smith (Oct 27)
- Re: FW: BlackIce Defender??? ark (Oct 28)
- RE: FW: BlackIce Defender??? sean . kelly (Oct 28)
- Re: FW: BlackIce Defender??? Steven M. Bellovin (Oct 28)
- RE: FW: BlackIce Defender??? Butler, Gary (Oct 29)
- RE: FW: BlackIce Defender??? LUCIUS (Oct 30)
- RE: FW: BlackIce Defender??? Noller, Gregory (Oct 29)
- Re: FW: BlackIce Defender??? ark (Oct 29)
- Re: FW: BlackIce Defender??? Craig H. Rowland (Oct 29)