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Message-ID: <20031110024341.GB4658@chopin.gmi.com>
From: adam-fulldisclosure at gmi.com (adam morley)
Subject: WinME firewalling
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 08:03:30PM -0500, j wrote:
> I'm interested in opinions from list participants - all my work is with
> linux, like a firewalling linux bridge on a win/lin mixed network.
>
> Given: A technologically-impaired grandmother with winME. Any change
> of OS would be psychologically damaging... (WinXP 'kindergarten crayon'
> default theme would probably induce seizures... ;^) Grandma now gets a
> DSL connection, and as per the ISP has this shiny new DSL modem plugged
> into said WinME machine, both now powered up ~24 hours per day, an open
> orifice with a target painted on it.
>
> What software firewall solution is truly suitable for Grandma? As
> invisible to the user as possible, of course, since this Grandma doesn't
> understand most of the 'little window thingies' that spontaneously
> appear already. (you know at least one - the manic 'ok' clicker...)
> Additional hardware of any kind is not permitted, this has to be a
> software solution under WinME.
Why no additional hardware? Is the DSL modem a USB modem or something? When you said no additonal hardware, it immediately reminded me of this:
http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS8505038381.html
just because when I saw it I thought it was real neat, and I'd had the same idea for little VPN widgets for mobile officer workers.
That said, I ran Zone Alarm for someone and they liked it, but it had popups when certain apps tried to connect to the network which they really didn't like. I too have trouble recommending software firewalls for Windows, but I'd look at the following articles at PC magazine, because PC magazine is synonymous with Windows for me:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1370707,00.asp
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,646255,00.asp
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,646256,00.asp
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,55367,00.asp
One of the software ones in those articles must run on ME (hopefully)
--
adam
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