Re: sygate 5.5 free not active ?

Casey Klc wrote:
> In article <43ce8bc7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, bumens@xxxxxxxxxxx says...
>> Sygate has a big design flaw as a "Personal Firewall" - its system
>> services are opening windows. This is a security breach, because this
>> opens additional attack vectors, your system does not have with the
>> Windows-Firewall instead.
>
> Are you referring to operating system services not being controlled
> by Sygate firewall.

No. Sygate installs a system service (runs with elevated privileges, so
it can do all the filtering stuff). Contradictory to the MS guidelines
this service has windows attached to it (for the configuration UI).
These windows make the service susceptible to shatter attacks.

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