I imagine someone who is waaaay more educated and knowledgeable on the subject of "Holes in Windows" can answer more specifically in that department. I don't know ZoneAlarm, in terms of being able to set ports and services... it certainly seems to be the personal firewall of choice for the "point-n-clickers"... someone can correct me on this, but I believe the VNC docs do address firewalls in both directions.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Shing-Fat (Fred) Ma Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 1:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: BW degradation when using ZoneAlarm Actually, I wasn't relying on ZoneAlarm for secure communications, I was relying on it for protection against attacks on my computer. I'm not an expert, but it seems to be a separate issue....right? Fred ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Fred Ma Department of Electronics Carleton University, Mackenzie Building 1125 Colonel By Drive Ottawa, Ontario Canada K1S 5B6 ======================================================================== == > > Date: 13 Dec 2001 22:42:52 -0600 > From: ScanMan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: BW degradation when using ZoneAlarm > > The protection that a "personal firewall" offers is slight, at best. > Considering that Windows will just let programss waltz all over each > other's RAM, nothing can really be called "secure" on Windows. What > really WILL enhance security is SSH. There's a windows client called > "tunnelier" I think. It basically works like a very tiny VPN. > > On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 13:51, Shing-Fat (Fred) Ma wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I just signed up for ADSL, which is greate because it's like > > physically being on the LAN at school or any particular > > building. I can do work over the network with graphics > > communications software like www.tightVNC.com. > > That is, until I enable ZoneAlarm. Then the speed > > drops down to about the same as a 56Kbps modem without > > ZoneAlarm. It looks like my choices are: > > > > * Forget working from home > > * Forget a firewall (probably foolish) > > * Forget ZoneAlarm (but it's free!) > > * Live with download rigour-mortis until I give into one > > of the above > > > > Anyone have a more clever idea? > > > > Thanks. > > > > Fred --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
