Re: Abtrusion - Anyone use this?

From: *Vanguard* (no-email_at_post-reply-in-newsgroup.invalid)
Date: 03/26/04 

Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 21:50:54 -0600

"Kerodo" said in news:Xns94B7BCA2A7D39kerodokenny@68.6.19.6:
>
> Looks very interesting. I would think that your software firewall
> would do at least partially the same thing though, but maybe this
> program does a much better job? I think I'll try it out and see how
> it goes...

A firewall will only detect or block processes that attempt to make a connection past it. It does nothing to keep rogue programs from running on your computer, like formatting your disk, deleting registry entries, deleting files, spying, redirecting you to a different site (which is done BEFORE the connection is made), and so on. Firewalls are handy in managing who gets to connect in and out, not specially what runs on your system.

What intrigues me is the claim that a computer thus protected (with Abtrusion or System Safety Net, or whatever the other one is called) is [more] immune against viral infection simply because the infected file won't be allowed to run. It's somewhat the same tact taken by SpywareBlaster: it doesn't stop the crap from getting onto your system but it prevents it from executing. 

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