RE: Personal Firewalls

From: Robinson, Sonja (SRobinson@HIPUSA.com)
Date: 04/09/03

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    From: "Robinson, Sonja" <SRobinson@HIPUSA.com>
To: 'Sridhar J' <sridhar.jayaraman@wipro.com>, security-basics@securityfocus.com
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 09:34:18 -0400

    Don't want to burst your bubble or crticize you, but I think that you need
    to can Win98 and upgrade your O/S to either w2K or XP. Win98 is totally
    insecure. From an intrusion and weakness standpoint I love to play with
    people who have 98. From a forensic standpoint I love it to. It's Soooooo
    easy.

    Anything you listed as far as a personal fw is fine. I haven't tested the
    others but Zone Alarm and other products basically do the same thing. Might
    I suggest that you install the personal fw on a separate box and then put
    your other machine behind it? It adds an extra layer of security. You
    don't need something great, just an old crappy pc with a large enough drive
    to hold your O/S, your fw and the logs. And old 1.2GB drive is cool with a
    slower CPU since you don't really have to worry about network traffic and
    speed issues since it is a passthru for you anyway. Oh, and put a good
    SECURED O/S on that box too. Def NOT Win98.

    Sonja Robinson, CISA
    Network Security Analyst
    HIP Health Plans
    Office: 212-806-4125
    Pager: 8884238615

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Sridhar J [mailto:sridhar.jayaraman@wipro.com]
    Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 3:27 PM
    To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
    Subject: Personal Firewalls

    Hi

    I have a PIII 550 m/c running Win98. I need a personal firewall for it. I am
    looking at Zone Alarm, Sygate and Tiny Personal Firewall as my options.

    My intention is not only to protect my systems, but also to learn something
    about logs and analysing them. In light of this, which do you think would be
    ideal?

    No, I don't have a *nix system and don't intend to use it now.

    ----------
    Regards
    Sridhar J
    ----------
    "What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence;The question is,
    what can you make people believe that you have done." --Sherlock Holmes in
    "A Study in Scarlet"

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