Re: problems with sunbelt kerio firewall and Spy Sweeper from Webr

On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 14:40:02 -0700, unstablemicrosoft
<unstablemicrosoft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Answer:
Controlling outbound access.

Which is very unreliable.

Some spyware can come in, and send data
outbound without being detected. I suppose it could be done in a way that is
typical for spyware (I know very little about that) or it can just send it
straight through the firewall. Yes, straight through the firewall. My McAfee
firewall seems to have about 11 ways (available in the public domain) in
which it can be penetrated (outbound) without the datastream being detected.
So, it's basically waiting for an effective spyware program, such as a
trojan, that knows how to penetrate my firewall without being detected.

The kerio firewall passes all the tests at www.firewallleaktester.com.

Do you have any evidence of that? It does not match with my own
testings and it does match with the results of
http://www.firewallleaktester.com/tests_overview.php

The good thing about kerio is that your can use it in full mode for a trial for one
month, and that it's very cheap. Disadvantage: surfing the web is a bit
slower, for me anyway.

Yes, and when you install it in "simple" mode (which they recommend
for novices) it is almost as leaky as the windows XP firewall which
Sunbelt software at their web-site call "half asleep". LOL.

And there are some good other firewalls/security suites, but they don't come
cheap.

Please name some. I have not yet come across any.


"B. Nice" schreef:

On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 15:32:01 -0700, unstablemicrosoft
<unstablemicrosoft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Advanced. But I don't think that's the problem. I have tried to tweak about
anything that I could tweak.

Fine. I just wanted to make sure you were'nt using simple mode.

I have a vague suspicion that explorer.exe is involved in this issue.

I have asked both companies for support, but I don't think that will lead to
anything.

Probably not. But what is your reason for using a third party personal
firewall instead of the buil-in one?

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