Re: ZoneAlarm & Win2K's Internet services

From: Robert Williams (robertg.williams@btopenworld.com)
Date: 12/19/02 

From: "Robert Williams" <robertg.williams@btopenworld.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 18:38:19 +0000 (UTC)

Why are your postings so thin??

Robert

"Shing-Fat Fred Ma" <fma@doe.carleton.ca> wrote in message
news:3E012B74.90308@doe.carleton.ca...
> Hello,
>
> I just migrated from WinME to Win2K.
> I have arrived at Utopia. Relatively
> speaking.
>
> But....
>
> Zone Alarm wants permission to give
> server rights to "Generic Host Process
> for Win32 Services" and "Services and
> Controller App". Isn't this bad for
> security? Before, I decide who gets
> in and out. Now whoever makes use of
> these services get to go in and out at
> will. I don't have the choice of denying
> rights to these services, as nothing
> would work.
>
> How is this typically handled in Win2K?
>
> Fred
>
> I have already granted a request for one
> of the two services to receive incoming
> stuff, lord knows on who's behalf.
> There doesn't seem to be much point in
> having ZoneAlarm.
>
> --
> Fred Ma, fma@doe.carleton.ca
> Carleton University, Dept. of Electronics
> 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario
> Canada, K1S 5B6
>

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