The problem is that while you can, for example, tell your personal firewall to let IEXPLORE make outgoing connections and nothing else, any program that infects IEXPLORE.EXE or one of its DLLs can get out too, and you'll be none the wiser. The main use of a personal firewall is for protecting you against incoming connections (for example, attacks on your NetBIOS port.)
An external firewall is much more effective, but more of a hassle. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 3:59 AM To: [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. As I understand it, your comment IS valid for Win9x, but not Valid for the NT/Win2k/WinXp product lines, which do have protected memory space. I think the same applies for general security, Win9x security is pants, but NT/2k/XP is as secure as any *NIX system (if you know how to set it up so...) The amount of hacker attacks is directly proportional to the usage of the platform, if the whole world ran Linux (which they don't) then hackers would be actively finding holes in that platform.... **************************************************************************** **************** This E-mail and any files transmitted with it are in commercial confidence and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this E-mail in error please notify the Administrator by E-mail ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of DEK Printing Machines Ltd., or its affiliates. **************************************************************************** **************** --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
