Re: Re: Re: PC Firewall Choices

[greybrimstone () aim com]

Nancy,
    Check out bullgard for your home/personal firewall/av/etc. Its 
rather decent for your average mom/pop/home user.

-Adriel

-----Original Message-----
From: Nancy Kramer <nekramer () mindtheater net>
To: hummer () domeranger com; full-disclosure () lists grok org uk
Sent: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 02:42:00 -0500
Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Re: Re: PC Firewall Choices

  I guess I will stick with Kasperky which will probably phone home to 
Russia or something. Does anyone have any experience with the Firewall 
that comes with paid AVG? I just run free AVG currently on most 
computers so have not used it .

Regards,

Nancy Kramer

At 01:15 AM 1/20/2006, hummer () domeranger com wrote:

 >I have been following this discussion waiting for someone to mention 
> another "feature" of Zone Alarm:
>Posted January 13, 3:00 a.m. PST Pacific Time,
>ROBERT X. CRINGELY http://www.infoworld.com/
>
 >A Perfect Spy? It seems that ZoneAlarm Security Suite has been 
phoning
>home, even when told not to. Last fall, InfoWorld Senior Contributing
>Editor James Borck discovered ZA 6.0 was surreptitiously sending
 >encrypted data back to four different servers, despite disabling all 
of
 >the suite's communications options. Zone Labs denied the flaw for 
nearly
 >two months, then eventually chalked it up to a "bug" in the software 
--
>even though instructions to contact the servers were set out in the
 >program's XML code. A company spokesmodel says a fix for the flaw 
will
>be coming soon and worried users can get around the bug by modifying
>their Host file settings. However, there's no truth to the rumor that
>the NSA used ZoneAlarm to spy on U.S. citizens.
>
>
>:)
>
>Hummer
 >----- Original Message ----- From: "Nancy Kramer" 
<nekramer () mindtheater net>
 >To: "Greg" <full-disclosure2 () pchandyman com au>; 
> <full-disclosure () lists grok org uk>
>Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 11:27 PM
>Subject: RE: [Full-disclosure] Re: Re: PC Firewall Choices
>
>
 >>I have the paid ZA but I heard the free one was better. Have no idea 
>>about that but would never buy the paid version again. At least now I 
>>know what was happening. Will try to look for that feature and set it 
to >>the maximum minutes. I only have it on my laptop which only goes 
on the >>internet sporadically but generally goes on the internet on 
public >>wireless networks which I think may not be all that secure. 
Lots of >>times I am meeting with someone there and we talk and then 
lookup >>something on the internet. I could see how time could pass 
quickly and I >>might not touch the computer for awhile. Thanks for the 
explanation.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Nancy Kramer
>>
>>
>> At 10:10 PM 1/19/2006, Greg wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> > -----Original Message-----
>>> > From: full-disclosure-bounces () lists grok org uk
>>> > [mailto:full-disclosure-bounces () lists grok org uk] On Behalf
>>> > Of Nancy Kramer
>>> > Sent: Friday, 20 January 2006 2:30 PM
>>> > To: Stan Bubrouski; full-disclosure () lists grok org uk
>>> > Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Re: Re: PC Firewall Choices
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > I admit I know nothing about firewalls but with ZA I have had
>>> > to shut it
>>> > down sometimes to go onto the internet. I have no idea why.
>>> > I just can't
>>> > get on and when I shut it down I can.
>>> >
>>>
 >>>That'd be a well known and never fixed bug I reported to Zonelabs 
some years
 >>>back now. It has a feature to automatically lock internet 
connection after
 >>>so many minutes of inactivity. The length of time can be changed by 
the
 >>>user. What it REALLY did was cut off access to internet and any LAN 
you were
 >>>on, isolating you entirely and never actually let go of it when the 
user was
 >>>back at the keyboard. Exiting ZA let that go and internet and lan 
were
 >>>restored. You have the option to turn that feature OFF but even 
that didn't
 >>>stop the whole thing happening. So, about the only thing you could 
do was to
 >>>set the auto lock as high as it could go and turn the feature off. 
It would
 >>>still go off after that many minutes had passed (which I believe is 
999 in
 >>>the PRO version and 99 in the free version) and lock you out again 
but it
>>>was delayed by that much, at least.
>>>
 >>>You CAN set certain programs to pass by its' lock, however. So, if 
you have
 >>>some computers almost always chattering away on a distributed 
project but
 >>>otherwise not touched, you could allow those programs to pass on 
even
 >>>though, should you attempt to get out with a simple web browser 
(where it
 >>>wasn't allowed to pass the lock), you cant. Saves some stuffing 
about on
 >>>such machines and let's face it - the more "free" some company 
execs see,
 >>>the more likely they are to use it. Surprising how many Windows 
based
>>>companies use free ZA.
>>>
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