Re: The importance of Securing Your Home Computer

WinTerMiNator wrote:
Eh, yes. Using Sygate Personal Firewall:
- By default inbound connexion are prevented,

Same for the Windows Firewall.

- Skype cannot change this, even when run in an admin session,

Of course it can, though it probably doesn't.

- I am informed of the first atempt of Skype to connect to internet; I
can then choose to allow connexion, inbound or outbound, permanently
or just for once

Unless Skype made any attempts to bypass this, of course.

Read [1] to understand why you can't rely on Sygate (or other personal
firewalls).

Besides, you forgot to mention that with Sygate you have an interactive
service running with SYSTEM privileges, thus rendering your system
vulnerable to shatter-style attacks.

[1] http://copton.net/Personal_Firewalls/ccc-vortrag-en.html

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