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| Thread ID: 13619 | 2001-12-10 03:00:00 | Of interest to all who use Zone alarm and other personal firewalls and think they are protected : - (( | Guest (0) | Press F1 |
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| 27164 | 2001-12-10 03:00:00 | Hello everybody, If you are running Zonealarm or most of the other personal firewalls, go to the attached link and see how easy it is for any hacker to sneak past them and get at your data. www.technews.com then go to some of the attached links and see for yourself. Just a warning, beware out there. Alan |
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| 27165 | 2001-12-10 07:12:00 | It is impossible to make any system hacker proof. If a hacker wants in they will get in. Things like firewalls just make their job a little harder. The only full proof way of keeping your system completly safe is by not having it connected at all. Locking it in a safe and throwing away the key will also to the job. | Guest (0) | ||
| 27166 | 2001-12-10 09:02:00 | excactly......nicely put. also firewalls are good for spotting attemps and also rouge programs. |
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| 27167 | 2001-12-10 14:18:00 | Just reading that link briefly I noticed that it said that the rogue program had to disguise itself as a legitimate program. ZoneAlarm has advanced settings that identifies the program by full path name which isn't enabled by default but should be. | Guest (0) | ||
| 27168 | 2001-12-11 05:42:00 | 'Just because you're paranoid it doesn't mean they're not trying to get you'. | Guest (0) | ||
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