comp.security.firewalls archive
Re: What's up with Jetico Firewall?
Date: Sat Apr 01 2006 - 04:16:18 CEST
"Sebastian Gottschalk" <seppi@seppig.de> wrote in message
news:495t93Fmq3sbU1@news.dfncis.de...
> Casey wrote:
>> In article <442d7225@news.uni-ulm.de>, bumens@dingens.org says...
>>> Casey <casey@notspecified.net> wrote:
>>>> Why not solve your problem by trying Sygate Personal Firewall
>>> Because Sygate has huge security drawbacks.
>>
>> Why are you so vague. With all of your knowledge, surely
>> you could give the specifics.
>
> - opening windows with SYSTEM privilege
> - easily DoSed
> - privacy option does actually omit the supposedly protected data
> - a restricted user can change the configuration
> - certain world-writeable registry keys and files
The word is *global*-writeable
Duane :)
Received on Mon May 1 01:03:47 2006