ZoneAlarm version 6.5 WARNING

Why bothering with such a "Personal Firewall" after all?

Yours, VB.

Volker Birk wrote on 2006-Jun-16 in news: snipped-for-privacy@news.uni-ulm.de:

To keep your computer from polluting the Internet further when your computer is infected by viruses, spyware, etc. Windows firewall does NOT monitor outgoing Internet connections like most other firewalls, just incoming ones.

- Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

- -- Mark Twain

- Bruce A. Johnson in Hardisty, Alberta, Canada

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This does not work anyways. You're fooled by advertizing nonsense.

Yours, VB.

Volker Birk wrote on 2006-Jun-17 in news:44944557 @news.uni-ulm.de:

I don't pay attention to advertising. I pay attention to what a product does, and the results.

There are many zombie mailing computers out there, whose owners don't have a clue that a spammer is using their computer to send out spam. I have met a couple (zombie computer owners, as well as spammers). They wouldn't have had as many computer headaches if they had had decent security software, including a firewall that monitors outgoing Internet connections.

I think you're probably just yanking my chain, but I say the above so then others will hopefully learn to get good security software.

- Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

- -- Mark Twain

- Bruce A. Johnson in Hardisty, Alberta, Canada

- snipped-for-privacy@BruceJohnson.ca

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Then you should know, that "controlling outbound" is a fairy tale.

The latter does not prevent, cannot prevent communication. Because we discussed this so many times, and even Microsoft accept, that this is not possible, please first read the corresponding discussions here and afterwards we talk again.

Yours, VB.

Just to confirm that I did a chkdsk /f with ZA v. 6.5.714.000 and The PC started ok but had stop (my very first auto-reboot in years) 5 mins later.

Well, the last days I installed the Apache server 2.2.2 on my computer with XP Pro as OS. the first thing I saw after reboot was a window with the question by the XP firewall: apache.exe wants to connect to the internet. Will you allow it once, ever or never?

I should mention that I don't have any other firewall on my pc running, only the XP firewall.

This has nothing to do with this nonsense of "controlling outbound". This is a useful function to configure the packet filter for allowance of listening sockets.

Yours, VB.