Guest Zeitzeuge Posted February 22, 2009 Posted February 22, 2009 Zonelabs Zonealarm firewalls on XP-systems delivers a constant flow of blocked attempts to access the computer. Another computer with windows vista also uses Zonealarm but the there are absolutely no blocked attemps listed in the log-windows. What's the reason: Is the firewall badly installed or does vista block the attemps before the firewall does so...? Thanks -- Gerhard Felsing Quote
Guest Kayman Posted February 22, 2009 Posted February 22, 2009 On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:02:13 +0100, Zeitzeuge wrote: <span style="color:blue"> > Zonelabs Zonealarm firewalls on XP-systems delivers a constant flow > of blocked attempts to access the computer. Another computer with windows > vista also uses Zonealarm but the there are absolutely no blocked attemps > listed in the log-windows. What's the reason: Is the firewall badly > installed or does vista block the attemps before the firewall does so...?</span> PFW Criticism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_firewall#Criticisms "Personal Firewalls" are mostly snake-oil. http://www.samspade.org/d/firewalls.html Why your firewall sucks. http://tooleaky.zensoft.com/ "But I quickly realized the truth: The added protection provided by outbound filtering is entirely illusory." At Least This Snake Oil Is Free. http://msinfluentials.com/blogs/jesper/arc...il-is-free.aspx Deconstructing Common Security Myths. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetma...hs/default.aspx Scroll down to: "Myth: Host-Based Firewalls Must Filter Outbound Traffic to be Safe." Exploring the windows Firewall. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetma...ll/default.aspx "Outbound protection is security theater¡Xit¡¦s a gimmick that only gives the impression of improving your security without doing anything that actually does improve your security." Managing the Windows Vista Firewall http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc510323.aspx To remove ZoneAlarm completely from your computer in case normal uninstall can¡¦t be run or doesn¡¦t run properly... http://forums.zonealarm.com/zonelabs/board...&message.id=103 --or-- http://zonealarm.donhoover.net/uninstall.html --or-- Revo Uninstaller http://www.revouninstaller.com/ Good luck style_emoticons/ Quote
Guest Zeitzeuge Posted February 23, 2009 Posted February 23, 2009 Kayman wrote: <span style="color:blue"> > On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:02:13 +0100, Zeitzeuge wrote: > <span style="color:green"> >> Zonelabs Zonealarm firewalls on XP-systems delivers a constant flow >> of blocked attempts to access the computer. Another computer with windows >> vista also uses Zonealarm but the there are absolutely no blocked attemps >> listed in the log-windows. What's the reason: Is the firewall badly >> installed or does vista block the attemps before the firewall does so...?</span> > > PFW Criticism. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_firewall#Criticisms > > "Personal Firewalls" are mostly snake-oil. > http://www.samspade.org/d/firewalls.html > > Why your firewall sucks. > http://tooleaky.zensoft.com/ > "But I quickly realized the truth: The added protection provided by > outbound filtering is entirely illusory." > > At Least This Snake Oil Is Free. > http://msinfluentials.com/blogs/jesper/arc...il-is-free.aspx > > Deconstructing Common Security Myths. > http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetma...hs/default.aspx > Scroll down to: > "Myth: Host-Based Firewalls Must Filter Outbound Traffic to be Safe." > > Exploring the windows Firewall. > http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetma...ll/default.aspx > "Outbound protection is security theaterâ€â€it’s a gimmick that only gives > the impression of improving your security without doing anything that > actually does improve your security." > > Managing the Windows Vista Firewall > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc510323.aspx > > To remove ZoneAlarm completely from your computer in case normal uninstall > can’t be run or doesn’t run properly... > http://forums.zonealarm.com/zonelabs/board...&message.id=103 > --or-- > http://zonealarm.donhoover.net/uninstall.html > --or-- > Revo Uninstaller > http://www.revouninstaller.com/ > > Good luck style_emoticons/</span> Thank you, son! That's exactly the sort of answer I expected... -- Gerhard Felsing Quote
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