Re: Avast or Zone Alarm using proxy server?

From: Gerald Vogt (vogt_at_spamcop.net)
Date: 02/22/05 

Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 20:14:24 +0900

James Egan wrote:
> "Hacking is on the rise. And not just in the business sector. Itıs
> relatively easy for online interlopers to hop the standard router
> firewall and gain access to your financial information, your personal
> identification numbers, your passwords and more."
>
> Perhaps one of the many zonealarm promoting posters can explain how
> this router firewall hopping is so easily accomplished.
>
> Or maybe the zonelabs website is as full of *** as their firewall.

Well, I don't know if ZA does have a privacy protection function, but
Symantec Norton Internet Security has. You can enter all your sensitve
data like credit card numbers etc. there and NIS blocks attempts to send
this data out. NIS has been vulnerable to hacking and has been exploited
in the past. With all these personal data collected in one place (our
PFW) it is really easy to "gain access"...

Gerald