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  1. #11
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    I was doing a little research and found this.

    The risks of using an AOL client behind a firewall

    Many users wish to use AOL client or AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) behind the company firewall. However, opening the firewall for an AOL client can present a security risk to the entire network. AOL client connects to the AOL server at port 5190. This is usually easy enough for the administrator to configure the firewall to allow this port (5190), and the client will work properly. However, the AOL client establishes an IP tunnel to the AOL server and creates a VPN between the AOL network, and the Client's network (with the assistance of the AOL client of course), this basically allows complete communication between the client and the remote server (the AOL client receives an IP address on the
    virtual network, and therefore there is no way the firewall can limit this communication), and this also means that the client is now exposed to all kinds of IP based attacks, such as nukes, access to personal web servers and ftp servers, and much more, from anyone on the Internet (All they have to figure out is the Virtual IP address given by the AOL server).

    The firewall is basically helpless against this, because this is all going through port 5190 which was allowed for communication by the administrator. To see it in action, start your AOL client, and run "winipcfg" (under Windows 95) to see you have a new adapter (besides the dial-up-adapter or network adapter you used to connect to the Internet with). This adapter will have its own IP and gateway information. AOL's home page is at: www.aol.com For information on how to connect AOL client through a firewall, go here

    Hope it helps.
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  2. #12
    Zonealarm is a useless program made by idiots for idiots.

    Also 'your moms house' is quite obviously your house as your say 14.

    You use AOL and Zonealrm [which you can *disable*] and we should ph33r j00r skillzzzzz!

    Hell no! Youre nothing but a glorified imbecile!

    Go home little boy.

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    Hey Cracker,

    Have you told your mom yet about that porn site you were thinking about starting?

    http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=219851

    I'll bet she would be proud...

  4. #14
    Zonealarm isn´t such a bad product, the point is that they offered free personal firewalls for pc users and became very popular. So what do blackhats target? ZA users, Sygate makes a great firewall, but for how long? as oon as everyone switches then Sygate wil be the main target. And you can´t blame everything on the programs, sometimes it´s the OS´s fault.

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    lol @ iNViCTuS

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    Lightbulb

    cracker stop wasteing your time here you are not and probly never will be accepted here by anyone here that is respected. You are caught on to many lies and you post stupid crap about how your going to hack us all and put virii you admit to writeing on our computers... Your nothing more then a 13 year old with sub7 and winnuke with a bug ego cause u have infected other ignorant people with the backdoor and made them think you were "elite". Get over yourself and grow up kid!

    Anyone disagree with me id love to hear it and before they do please look in his profile and check out his last few post then tell me if u still think im wrong.

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    Originally posted here by Focmaester
    Zonealarm isn´t such a bad product, the point is that they offered free personal firewalls for pc users and became very popular. So what do blackhats target? ZA users, Sygate makes a great firewall, but for how long? as oon as everyone switches then Sygate wil be the main target. And you can´t blame everything on the programs, sometimes it´s the OS´s fault.
    It's not because ZA is the most widely used. you are mistaken. It's because the underlying technology is crap. The mutex engine won't work for much longer. the inherent weaknesses in it are too much to overcome. Anyway, I'm done bashing ZA.

    P.S. NetSyn - You couldn't be more right.....
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