Re: Good firewall recommendations

From: Celtic Leroy (I_am__celtic_leroy__san_verbage_at_myhost.com)
Date: 08/28/04 

Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 04:34:31 GMT

Kleeb <gimpmegimp@tunguska.obvious.homelinux.org> wrote:

>On 2004-08-27, Celtic Leroy <I_am__celtic_leroy__san_verbage@myhost.com> schrieb :
>>
>> I have used Zone Alarm, in it's various versions, since it was first
>> offered in tucows.com many years ago. I have used various anti-virus
>> programs as well. I currently do not use an AV program (I believe the
>> AV companies actually write some of these virus to keep you "on the
>> hook"), but I still use ZA. I'm happy to say my system has never been
>> infected, compromised, or owned (this is not a challenge to "test"
>> me!!!). Although, as a test, I did get the dreaded Blue screen of
>> death once (back a few years) on Win98SE while using ZA...this was one
>> of the now well known exploites that have since been fixed with an SP.
>>
>> My point is this. ZA will protect you from the occasional "ping" on
>> various ports (like the current 445 mess) by showing no "presence"
>> and, in turn, illiciting no attack. But, if the attacker is aware of
>> ....
>
><snip>
>
>Interesting point about the AV companies there. No viruses (I'm quite sure
>the term isn't 'virii'), no income ? If viruses no longer existed, would
>these companies become 'security specialists' overnight ? Or maybe they'd
>turn their attention to the spam problem ? What if spam was eliminated
>globally ? What exactly would they do then ?
>
>Not a troll, I'm just curious ! :)
>
>Cordially,
>
>Kleeb.

Good question! Although I don't have the problem of spam either. I
use Earthlink's "Spaminator". Even if I don't munge my address, I
don't see anyones e-mail unless they are in my address book. To get
in my address book, they have to ask nice!! ;)

Leroy

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