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Message-ID: <1054840781.1398.14.camel@lorien>
From: adam.lydick at verizon.net (Adam Lydick)
Subject: AW: Zone Alarm

It is worth noting that the application filtering of zone alarm and
other such "personal firewalls" is trivial to work around. There have
been a number of articles on it (google for them). One brief example:

Hostile process spawns iexplore.exe with a URL that "phones home".
iexplore.exe is almost certainly a trusted application. Attacker wins
(as always). 

Also worth noting, two other dedicated "firewalls / access points" from
Linksys and DLink specifically say that they may "crash" when under
attack to "protect" your network. I don't think I need to say any more
about that...

Cheers,

Adam

On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 06:31, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 08:37:50PM -0700, morning_wood said:
> > 
> > you must have really crappy admin if you need per application blocking 
> > ( hint: kill the process )
> 
> hint: most people on the Internet don't have admins.  How much time do
> you spend monitoring your grandmother's computer for suspicious
> processes?
-- 
Adam Lydick <adam.lydick@...izon.net>


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