Re: General Q's, mostly fire walls....
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Originally posted by S1lv3r
Are they super easy to bypass for basically anyone that knows what he/she is doing?
Depends on your security level, to some degree. I would almost always go with the strategy of blocking everything by default, and only allowing explicit things to work... rather than allowing everything by default, and making filters to catch stuff you don't want.
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Also, are there ways to hide connections from netstat in dos. Basically, if I think someone is in my system, but has bypassed zone alarm. When I do a netstat, will that show that they are connected, or can they hide that as well??
What Pressure said. It is possible (though not that likely, given that they would have to make it look exactly like netstat), if there is a trojan on your computer that really starts mucking with system stuff. But if there isn't a hostile program on your computer, and it's strictly from the outside, I would say no... Unless you cound a stealth scan as a 'connection'... (Which it isn't, if you think about it.)
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Originally posted by S1lv3r
I used tiny for a bit, but its too quiet, zone warns me whenever something trys to get to the net, also gives me hit counts and such. Who is trying to get in where. Again, I used tiny for a bit, but do not know it that well. I also like zones options of letting stuff access the net only when I want it too. Say like winamp, it allways ask to get to the net, if im running shoutcast then I allow it, if not then I dont allow it. With tiny it seems like I couldnt just click allow for this time. I had to click allow like 5 times, and then again some later. Or if I set to allow then it would allways allow it. Call me fickle hehe.
Uhm... Did you click 'remember for this specific computer'? The thing is, it MIGHT have created a rule that was specific to either a certain computer or a certain port. (I can't speak for the latest version, it doesn't work for me. I've only used 2.0.6) That way, whenever you want to connect to one that you haven't connected to before, it might ask you. There is a simple way to fix it... Just edit the rule yourself so that it works for the stations you like. Tiny's auto-add feature isn't that wonderful. (But I didn't mind, because I always wanted to edit it myself anyway.)