Re: whats the point of windows firewall?

"Trying to control the behaviour of malware already allowed to run is nothing but a silly idea. It cannot work reliably and therefore provides a false sense of security."

I think that would come as a great surprise to Zone Labs, Symantec, F-Protect, McAfee, Kaspersky, Trend Micro, etc.

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Ted Zieglar
"Backup is a computer user's best friend."

B. Nice wrote:
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 13:46:01 -0700, mck684
<mck684@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

i have zone alarm free edition installed on my laptop, which asks me when something is tring to access the internet etc, yet windows firewall which i used to have never asked me anything, and when i did a leak test on it the leak test said i didnt have a firewall running, whereas my zone alarm blocks it??? whats the point in the windows one???

The windows firewall concentrates on blocking inbound connections
which can be done reliably to a high degree.

Doing outbound connection control on the same machine as one is trying
to protect is both unreliable and counter-productive. Trying to
control the behaviour of malware already allowed to run is nothing but
a silly idea. It cannot work reliably and therefore provides a false
sense of security.

If you want to find several leak tests that ZoneAlarm Free don't stop
either, you just need to go here:
http://www.firewallleaktester.com/tests_overview.php - press the "view
results" button at the bottom.

ZA free leaks like a sieve.

/B. Nice

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