Re: Personal firewall with no user-interaction

From: Johnny Nielsen (DONT.WRITE.THIStrap402_at_megabit.dk)
Date: 09/07/03 

Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 00:54:50 +0200

Well, I found it available for free
(http://www.pgpi.org/products/pgp/versions/freeware/win32/7.0.3/) so I will
give it a try :-)

Best regards
Johnny Nielsen

"Tom McCune" <tom@DELETE_THISmccune.cc> wrote in message
news:Y0r6b.8114$3t2.3939@twister.nyroc.rr.com...
> "Johnny Nielsen" <DONT.WRITE.THIStrap402@megabit.dk> wrote in
> news:3f5a29a9$0$456$edfadb0f@dread11.news.tele.dk:
>
> > When I hear "application rules" it usually means the users will be
> > prompted when an existing application gets upgraded because it's
> > fingerprint changes.
> >
> > I think the application rule and the non-interactive requirement is in
> > conflict - thats what I have experienced so far.
> >
> > Now I have reduced my wish to a pure stateful inspection firewall
> > implemented in software. That way I ought to be sure the user won't be
> > troubled with technical questions.
> >
> > But does it exist ?
>
> It may be hard to obtain legally (as an outdated version), and you
> probably are not interested in installing PGP, but the PGP firewall
> included in PGP Personal 7.0.3 (which has Win2000 support), is an SPI
> firewall free of any application rules (the application rules are added
> in PGP 7.1). When I tried the PGP 7.0.3 firewall, setting it to the pre-
> defined Client Medium level worked without problem; and all web testing
> sites I tried showed all ports as Stealth.
>
> --
> Tom McCune
> http://www.McCune.cc
> Please use PGP for Privacy & Authenticity

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