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208633 2004-01-20 03:42:00 Hi, I'm looking for a small personal firewall that will alert me whenever an un-authorized program tries to access the internet, all I need is for it to do this as I have a dedicated linux box securing inbound traffic. The OS im using is Windows XP Professional.

Thanks,

//mb0o53
[linux] mb0o53 (4863)
208634 2004-01-20 04:14:00 Why not give the linux box some rules for outgoing stuff too? Graham L (2)
208635 2004-01-20 04:34:00 > Why not give the linux box some rules for outgoing stuff too?

Or you could use the linux box as a proxy server?
What this would end up doing is removing your default gateway from your machine and then telling all applications you want to allow access to the net to use the proxy server - mainly because Trojans and the lil' nasties look for a default gateway - anyway to call home and they'll use it, but proxy rules have to be set in each program requiring internet access.
The only major problem would be programs without support for proxy's but there are plenty of viable alternatives for that.


CyberChuck
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208636 2004-01-20 05:38:00 Graham L - That sounds good, but how would i go about doing it? [linux] mb0o53 (4863)
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