R: Personal firewalls for laptops

From: service-Abuse (abuse@edilserviceshop.com)
Date: 10/17/01 

Message-ID: <002001c156d4$d2160b00$1400000a@ess.prv>
From: "service-Abuse" <abuse@edilserviceshop.com>
To: "Nina Levitin" <NVL@integtech.com>, "'kutulu'" <kutulu@pr0n.kutulu.org>
Subject: R: Personal firewalls for laptops
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 08:27:38 +0200

Change OpSys use Linux , W2000 is one hole of security....
check with netstat cmd access to port of your IP and for close hole use
another machine with tool install like Stint, Satan, Nessus. This tool is
not for beginer.

By max....

----- Original Message -----
From: Nina Levitin <NVL@integtech.com>
To: 'kutulu' <kutulu@pr0n.kutulu.org>
Cc: <security-basics@security-focus.com>
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 10:41 PM
Subject: RE: Personal firewalls for laptops

> I have had quite a few problems with zone alarm.
>
> With windows 2000:
>
> Machine 1: I installed ZoneAlarm and rebooted. From that point on
windows
> 2000 refused to come up. I had to repair it. I did not try to install it
> on that machine again.
>
> Machine 2: Installed ZoneAlarm. Seemed to go OK. But I noticed that any
> time that I got two communications simultaneously (i.e. and ICQ message
and
> a mail message) that my computer would hard lock. This was both
consistent
> and repeatable. Uninstalling ZoneAlarm fixed this issue.
>
> Machine 3: ZoneAlarm caused general system instability.
>
> Windows 98: General system instability.
>
> I am not saying that ZoneAlarm is a bad product. I have seen it work
> wonderfully on a lot of machines. I personally have not had good luck
with
> it.
>
> -Kit
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kutulu [mailto:kutulu@pr0n.kutulu.org]
> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 10:17 AM
> To: Robert Claeson
> Cc: MDRobertson; kbrownfox@home.com; Dee Harrod;
> security-basics@security-focus.com
> Subject: Re: Personal firewalls for laptops
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 11:45:10PM +0200, Robert Claeson wrote:
> > MDRobertson wrote:
>
> > > Not wanting to sapm with an advert, but I use
> > > ZoneAlarm on my laptop, and it work wonders!
> > >
> > > http://www.zonealarm.com
>
> > I'm having a problem with it - it breaks my PPTP VPN connections from
> > W2K. Haven't tried IPSec with it yet.
>
> Most of the @Home customers in my department use it (approximately 10 of
> us), along with an IPSec client from Lucent, and it
> seems to have no adverse effects. I've never tried the built-in IPSec or
> PPTP that Windows 2000 has, though.
>
> --K
>

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