Re[2]: [OFFTOPIC] Zone Alarm

["Frank J. Hoffmann" <fh () fh net>]

Guys,

if you´re in need of a real good professional firewall for Windows systems,
you should take a good look at Sygate Personal Fw Pro 5

http://smb.sygate.com/products/pspf/whatsnew_pspf.htm

Forget silly stuff like ZoneAlarm or BlackICE...

Best
+frank

Lars Duesing wrote on Donnerstag, 5. Juni 2003:

> Hi JT, 


> > Does anyone have any experience using the Linksys WITH Zone Alarm, 
> > does it provide any features
> > that either product on their own do not? Thanks for any info.

> First of all, I don't own any linksys firewall, but others (ranging from
> a Debian system up to GeNUA appliances...)
> ZoneAlarm has in my eyes a very interesting feature. As it runs on the
> clients' system it can distinguish which (local) application is allowed
> to send data to the net. In days of gator et al a very nice feature.
> This is rarely to be done at central firewall - how should it distiguish
> good and bad applications (ok, IP-filter could do something, but this
> filterlist has to be managed and updated...). 
> So if an user knows how to use this personal firewalls, it is yet
> another step of security.

> greetings from munich, germany.

>        Lars Duesing
>         Students' Council, Munich University Of Applied Sciences


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