Re: Zone Alarm

[Michael Reilly <michaelr () cisco com>]

AtGuard - now that was a good SW firewall for Win32.  I have been trying to keep running it as I upgrade PCs but it is 
getting harder and harder (It doesn't help that the latest versions I have are upgrades and require the original copy I 
purchased.  That original copy doesn't install on Win 2k since Win 2k was not released at the time.)  The last one I 
upgraded to was version 3.2.

I tried the Norton product - so much garbaged was added that you couldn't find the necessary features.  In newer 
versions some nice cookie and ad blocking features have been removed and put in yet another product.

I'll try searching to see if I can find a standalone install for my Win 2k machine.

michael
On Wed, 4 Jun 2003 15:56:34 -0700
"Eric N. Valor" <ericv () cruzio com> wrote:

> > From: Sven Hoexter <sven () timegate de>
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 10:20:07AM -0700, morning_wood wrote:
> > >  Zone Alarmbuy a $40 hardware router. Software firewalls are not a
> > > security solution IMHO.
> >
> > Well I would say it's very questionable if so called "hardware routers"
> > running with software aswell are much better. They probably have bugs
> > aswell and often it's not easy to upgrade them.
> >
> > As always a "firewall" is the whole construct with portfilters and
> > users who know on wich "Install this cool Dialer button" they should
> > klick and on which not. Ah and a system wich receives regular vendor
> > patches is a part of the whole, too.
>
> I always did like AtGuard.  Of course, this was prior to it being swallowed 
> up by McAfee (or was it Norton) for their Personal Firewall product whereupon 
> it got "feature-creeped" into (IMHO) useless confusion.  The last version of 
> pure AtGuard is available out there on the web if you know how to look for 
> it.  
>
> It is/was a nice little basic packet filter for Win32 systems.  I've used it 
> in combination with certain NATting DSL routers for many home/small-business 
> networks I've installed and haven't had a customer complaint yet.  
>
> There was some discussion regarding possible exploits around AtGuard, but 
> IIRC those were based more on social engineering techniques (adding trojaned 
> programs to default paths, etc.) than straight vulnerability
>
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