"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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