Re: zonealarm

From: BRONXXELFSKINDUMPINVALID (BRONXXELFSKINDUMPINVALID@AOL.COM)
Date: 09/29/02 

From: BRONXXELFSKINDUMPINVALID <BRONXXELFSKINDUMPINVALID@AOL.COM>
Date: 29 Sep 2002 02:29:49 GMT

pecka wrote:

> the story is that I left my computer running for several hours with
> internet connection enabled and zonealarm on, when I came back I
> discovered that zonealarm was closed and my computer was left open for
> attacks from the internet.
> I ran The cleaner but it found no trojans and I ran Spybot and it
> found nothing supicious in the registry, so I think I'm clean for now.
>
> I have a question,
>
> Is it possible for a "hacker" to close and/or disable zonealarm pro
> from the internet?

If your computer is on a Windows Platform and you didn't dis-able a number
of Win Services, and also installed a firewall from the start, your
chances of already having a hacked/owned system can be very high. Trojan
Horses do dis-able your anti-virus and firewall applications.

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