Re: Can Firewalls conflict with each other?

From: Santa's Little Helper (mp3phile@lycos.com)
Date: 01/01/02

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    From: mp3phile@lycos.com (Santa's Little Helper)
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 12:54:05 GMT

    On Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:34:56 -0500, Ken Palmateer
    <kpalmatr@sympatico.ca> wrote:

    >On Tue, 01 Jan 2002 02:34:56 GMT, nickd@nospam.demon.co.uk wrote:
    >
    >>
    >>> I am fairly new to this and a question has just occured to me. I have a
    >>> netgear rt 314 with it's own hardware firewall. A test on grc.com allowed
    >>> a (fake, I hope) trojan horse to get through.
    >>
    >>Do you have the details?
    >>
    >>Or is this the "leaktest" thing, which only tests if your firewall allows
    >>outbound FTP, so is really only a test of a personal firewall, rather than a
    >>test of a firewall on a seperate host.
    >
    >It is the leaktest thing. I am wondering if I overreacted. Maybe I
    >should lose the ZoneAlarm firewall and be satisfied with what the
    >rt314 offers as far as firewalls are concerned. After all, how many
    >salivating psycho hackers can there be out there waiting to sink their
    >digitally demented digits into my hard drive. (Sorry. Too much new
    >years eve bubbly. Should go down, slobber on my wife, let her know I
    >can be a romantic to. Happy new year to all! kp

    If ZoneAlarm is working OK for you, keep it. Even though you're not a
    huge business with tons of top secret data, your computer is still
    vonurable to attack. The rt314 will keep a hacker from trying to
    break into your computer from outside, but does nothing to prevent a
    hacker from getting to your info from inside. You might download an
    innocent looking program, a nice screen saver perhaps, or a game demo.
    Next thing you know, your credit card numbers are stolen, passwords
    are stolen, and your collection of xxx pics are being uploaded to your
    grandmother and everyone else on your E-Mail address book. Another
    good thing to have is a virus scanner. The combination of the two,
    plus the router, should provide a good layer of protection for you. 

    --

    A computer without a mouse is pointless.

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