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From: Nic Werner [mailto:nicwerner@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 18 January 2006 10:42 AM
To: Greg
Cc: full-disclosure@lists.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] PC Firewall Choices
On 1/17/06, Greg <full-disclosure2@pchandyman.com.au> wrote:
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Werner
Sent: Wednesday, 18 January 2006 10:05 AM
To: Steven
Cc: full-disclosure@lists.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] PC Firewall Choices
Importance: High
ZoneAlarm - gets in the way, and hard to diagnose
problems. You end
up turning it off because it never remembers your
settings and you
can't trust it.
Rubbish. Sure it gets in the way. It is MEANT to get in the way. If
you close it down, it is likely because you don't know how to drive
it. The prog CAN be a little hard to newbies to understand
if you want
to go internet banking etc but people on this list ought to
know how
to handle it.
Getting in your way as opposed to letting you get work done
are two different things. Kerio does a great job of popping
up and explaining what is happening while I've seen more
people confused by ZA and its dialogs
No, we've turned ZA off as web sites or programs won't load
(Ciscoworks, nGenius, etc) and even though we've checked the
logs of ZA, nothing shows as being blocked. Turn it off and
everything magically works. I will never run the bloat that is ZA.
As I said - if you don't know how to drive it, that will happen. It is
variable enough, if you want to use it that is, to allow you to work at any
web site the way you want.....either Pro or Free versions, BTW.
Talk about trust, I don't trust the logging capability of ZA
at all due to examples like the above. While I enjoy your
rant to the choir about not trusting programs, my point is
that ZA doesn't show everything while it is actively blocking
something.
Did I say I trusted it? I said I loved it as it does a good job of that at
least. It also shows so-called security professionals at installations that
their belief in harware based protection is just ridiculous.
There was no rant from me no preaching to the choir. I guess maybe I stated
the bleedingly obvious but then it isnt so obvious to everyone no doubt.
To each their own! As you can see Steven, you should just
download each one and spend about a week fussing around.
- Nic.
I agree with that but I would also like to point out that whatever you
choose, if you don't feel your knowledge is up to it, then you need to read,
read and read some more all over the place. Find out every little droplet of
info you can about what people have done, found etc with the program of your
choice. You may find the program you like because it is so user friendly is
not up to scratch while the one that "gets in the way" may suit you better
depending on what you want it for once you learn how to drive the damned
thing.
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