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I dont mean to be rude, and Im sure alot of people will disagree, but In my opinion Zone Alarm is a piece of ****. It fails most of symantech's online security tests, even when "high settings" are selected. Give Tiny Softwares "Tiny Personal Firewall" a try. It works for me..:drink:
I happen to agree that, I do indeed think Zone Alarm is crap, and has been for a while. I have used and continue to use Tiny Personal Firewall, as I love the rules management. It is the closest to a good HW firewall as you will come.
Port 67 is unsafe, but a patch is available at zonelabs. Also there is a "mail safe bypass" exploit. No patches currently available.Quote:
Originally posted by RogueSpy
Oh yeah, that was on www.securityfocus.com at one time. . . I forgot about that.
Ok well thanks for all the help, much appreciated I will probably take you up on that deal with the tiny personal firewall.
If you have it on all the time it gives people more of a chance to break into it. how many logs a day do you get on attacks. Zonealarm doesn't block every port. there are udp ports that it won't block. If you want to see how secure your computer is goto Hackerwhacker.com and do a scan of your ip address.
thx for hackerwhacker, casper...im gonna see just how good this XP firewall is... :D
Cool, will you post and let us know - i'm very interested to hear more about it.
The main problem with HackerWhacker is that you only get one scan per non-webmail address, unless you pay money. Being the cheapskate that I am, I'd rather just scan my computer from somewhere else.