Re: Zone Alarm Disconnects Router from Internet

From: Wolfgang Kueter (wolfgang_at_shconnect.de)
Date: 11/21/05 

Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 21:13:28 +0100

Am Mon, 21 Nov 2005 19:11:30 +0000 schrieb Jock:

> You may not be far wrong there! What is a firewall for if not to
> keep intruders out. The XP firewall only works in one direction,
> ZA looks at both incoming and outgoing traffic.

ZA and all similar products claim that they can control outgoing traffic.
In fact they can't. Quite some existing malware will be able to trick
these tools, switch them off of whatever else.

Once malware that is sufficiently evil is executed the system is toast. It
is toast no matter whether a firewall placebo is installed on the system
or not. The solution is simple: Don't install or ececute malware.

Wolfgang

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