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Re: [Full-disclosure] PC Firewall Choices

from [Valdis . Kletnieks] Network Security [Permanent Link]
Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] PC Firewall Choices
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:08:39 -0500 
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:59:52 MST, Nick Hyatt said:

Given the choice between one of those selections and a standard Linksys
router / firewall combo, wouldn't it be safer to go with the hardware
firewall? I find the configuration options to be quite a bit more in-depth,
and the hardware firewall doesn't get itself as stuck in the system as say,
ZA does.


Even more important, a hardware firewall can't be compromised as easily
by malware that's on a host behind the firewall.  It's easy for a program
on a PC to tell ZA to look the other way.  It's a little harder for it to
tell a hardware firewall to look the other way.

Unless of course, the firewall implements the UPnP "Pants Down!" RPC.. ;)

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