Re: Zone Alarm

[Shawn McMahon <smcmahon () eiv com>]

On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 09:23:00PM +0200, Sven Hoexter said:
> 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.

Although "fails open" is a pretty powerful argument against software
firewalls, it's probably easier to get a user to download and install a
new copy of Zone Alarm (especially if it has some kind of auto-update
feature, which I dunno since I don't use it), than it is to get them to
download a new firmware image for their hardware router and flash it.


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