Re: Newbie Firewalls?
From: Duane Arnold (notme_at_notme.com)
Date: 11/06/03
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Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 06:13:31 GMT
"Lazy Senior" <spamno_lazysenior@mchsi.com> wrote in news:pI8qb.112717
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> Black Ice on the other hand hasnt asked me anything, which
> makes me wonder if it is really effective protecting me?
About that, BlackIce's Application can go both ways.
One can set it up by doing a Baseline of all program elements on the
machine, there is no need to be asked 1000's questions about what's to be
allowed on outbound.
On the other hand, you can tell BI, not to do a Baseline and by George, you
will get the 100,000 questions asked of what to allow on the outbound.
What I like best about BI's Application Control is its ability to control
program execution on the machine or control the communications of something
like svchost.exe from communicating out but let it run.
In the example of stopping MSN from running on my laptop that has XP pro,
this command procedure *gpedit.msc* worked on my desktop machine running XP
pro. But for some reason XP pro on my laptop is blowing it off as I have
tried several times to disable MSN on the machine.
Using Active Ports, I could see that msmsgs.exe was still running and
listening on the ports. So I went to BI's App Control and told it to
*Terminate* msmsgs.exe when it tries to run. And that's what BI is doing
terminating msmsgs.exe as it tries to start. I'll figure out what's
happening with MSN later. I know BI is terminating it as I see it in the
logs and I don't see it using Active Ports.
Also I like using Gator to help me keep track of passwords I need as I go
to various Websites. I am too old to try to remember all the psw(s). But I
also know that Gator is spyware and is communicating out to sites that are
tracking my every move.
So I tell BI Apps Control to *Block* Gator.exe and CMEsys.exe from
communicating on the network and out to the Internet, And I can see it in
the logs using Visualice as BI blocks them every hour or so as they try to
communicate to the Internet.
BI is doing its job for me behind the router. That's all I can ask of
anything is to do the job when I need it.
Duane :)
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