Firewall software

[Greg Anderson]

For an inbound/outbound Internet traffic filter, I highly recommend Zone Alarm, from Zone Labs.  It's really easy to use, can be set up so that no traffic, inbound or outbound, goes on without your explicit permission, and even better, it's free!

Check out: http://www.zonealarm.com/

Best Regards,
Greg


At 10:24 AM 10/29/00 -0600, Ron Nossaman wrote:
> >When all the fuss came about last night, I hurried to the computer store and 
> >purchased Mcaffey Antivirus. Like my backup habits, I should have done this a 
> >long time ago. I also purchased Mcaffey Firewall which I highly recommend. 
> >Keeps outsiders out of your computer system.
> >
> >Dave Peake, RPT
>
>
>Tip of the iceberg, folks, especially, but not exclusively, for the cable
>cruiser set. I've been using Black Ice Defender as a firewall for some
>time, and it's very effective at blocking incoming traffic, but we all
>still need something to monitor and control outbound traffic as well. I
>downloaded PKZip from the Web site, to get a decent Windows based zip
>manager. The non-retail version of this program (don't know about the
>retail version) includes a cute little unannounced worm called Tsadbot that
>forever more runs in the background and communicates with SOMETHING out
>there in cyberland whenever your computer is running. The idea, I think, is
>that this little gargoyle is assembling, and presumably disseminating, a
>compilation of your Net trafficking habits (and possibly (probably))
>installed software list, for a user profile database to be sold to other
>vendors as a marketing tool. In truth, it could be sending ANYTHING off
>your hard drive to ANYONE out there and you wouldn't know the difference.
>Zone Alarm will control traffic in both directions, but I can't get it to
>work for some reason. Can't access the thing once it's installed to
>configure it, but it did tell me what was happening when it detected
>outbound traffic. PKZip, interestingly enough, will not run without it's
>parasite. 
>
>Quite a few vendors offering shareware or freeware versions of their
>commercial software are using this thing, so if you use any shareware
>products from prominent companies, you may have it. Decide for yourself
>whether it's important enough to be concerned about. 
>
>Now, does anyone know of a good firewall that DOES monitor and
>report/control outbound traffic as well as inbound?
>
>Ron N

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Greg Anderson                                 greg@PlanetBeagle.com