Another source of information is on the Gibson Research's news server,
news.grc.com. The 'Shieldsup' and 'Leaktest' groups discuss firewall issues.
Be warned, these newsgroups have a _lot_ of traffic!

I've used ZoneAlarm for a while, and been happy with it. I _don't_ have
dedicated Internet access, tho.

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Paul S. Butler, System Administrator
Data Trace
(916) 797-5000

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Bixby" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: OT: My PC is on the Internet!


> "Sohrt, Jeff" wrote:
> > I have installed the "free" zone alarm which is supposed to make my PC
well
> > hidden from all the peeks, pokes, and pings of the internet.  Running
the
> > test web site (which they refer to), provides a report describing the
> > "stealthiness" of the attempted inquiries. And all the most potentially
> > damaging of ports are reported as "stealth".
> >
> > But, I am curious nonetheless just how safe it is.
>
> A super-long thread about possible Zone Alarm vulnerabilities has been
running
> in the Usenet newsgroup comp.dcom.xdsl for the past several days.  I have
not
> read any of these messages because I don't use Zone Alarm.
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