Zone Alarm (Freeware-) stopped reporting intrustions..

Are you using a router with firewall? If so, it would be dropping all unsolicited packets (intrusions) and they would never reach your computer.

Deinstall ZA, it's useless. See

And if you think it can block malicious outbound traffic see Microsofts statement at chapter "Myth: Host-Based Firewalls Must Filter Outbound Traffic to be Safe. "

Thanks for the link, Ulf. I have used Torsten's batch file for shutting down XP services. Scrolling down his page (in English):

Other contributions for computer security

Desktop/Personal Firewalls (PFW) - and why you don't need this stuff

Sorry. There is no actual translation available.

Would someone like to translate the same section on the German page into English?

ISTM that this discussion is too technical for Babelfish to be of much use.

Ron :)

the chapter "Myth: Host-Based Firewalls Must Filter Outbound Traffic to

I wonder why microsoft vista firewall has been given the ability to block outgoing applications if its such a myth?

bassbag wrote: : I wonder why microsoft vista firewall has been given the ability to block : outgoing applications if its such a myth?

Probably the same reason why they introduced Active directory even if NT directory was as advanced as NDS. http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:eoHRh0T238AJ:

Lars

> the chapter "Myth: Host-Based Firewalls Must Filter Outbound Traffic to

Because of popular demand. The point the Technet article makes still stands.

cu

59cobalt

We already discussed this topic here. Please feel free to use an usenet archive of your choice. If you have questions, I'd be pleased to answer.

Yours, VB.

>> the chapter "Myth: Host-Based Firewalls Must Filter Outbound Traffic to

Does it?...id say its debateable or hypocritical. me

>>> the chapter "Myth: Host-Based Firewalls Must Filter Outbound

Yes.

You may want to support that opinion with some arguments.

cu

59cobalt

>>>> the chapter "Myth: Host-Based Firewalls Must Filter Outbound

Not really...after all it wasnt me that said outbound application filtering was a waste of time and then implemented it in my next operating system. me

>>>>> the chapter "Myth: Host-Based Firewalls Must Filter Outbound

The Technet article explains why outbound filtering is a waste of time. I fail to see your arguments to prove their reasoning wrong. Whether you consider it hypocrisy that Microsoft implements pointless features into their OS, because their customers demand it, is of no concern here.

cu

59cobalt

Hi,

Click on the Alerts and Logs Tab. This is where you turn alerts on or off. (at least it does on 4.5.594).

charlie R

As long as the firewall is working, it doesn't much matter whether it shows a count of how many packets are blocked etc.

Very easy to see on the "Firewall" log of ZA (always empty :-)

Too bad one can't install only the "program" monitor part of ZA (since the router takes care of the "firewall" part anyway)

You can block "nice" software that follows the rules. "bad" software should be caught my your a/v software anyway.

So I think it has a pupose. I can block most MS software from "calling home". Only that is worth installing ZA (that's all I use it for :-)

The firwall bit is taken care of by my router...

Why don't you just configure your MS software not to do so?

BTW: there is only one single software program, which you cannot configure not to phone home; it's name is: Zone Alarm.

Yours, VB.

If it was that easy. Most of the software still try :-)

I guess that would be true for all firewalls, no way to keep them from going passed their own defenses. Do you know what ZA is sending home even when you have told it not to (and does it hide the IP address as you have selected)?

Thanks, VB. I must have missed it. I will post again if I have problems/questions.

Ron :)

No.

No. Only Zone Labs knows, what's encoded.

Because it's not possible to "hide the IP address", of course it does not.

Yours, VB.