Re: Do not use free firewalls !



prophet <spam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have yet to see a program that was able to reach a server somewhere
after blocking it with Sygate.

Sygate was no problem at all to circumvent, as the rest of those
"Personal Firewalls". It took me some minutes to hack PoC code.

Yours,
VB.
--
"If you want to play with a piece of windows software that makes you
click all over the place, there's always minesweeper."

Kyle Stedman about "Personal Firewalls" in c.s.f
.



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