Re: personal firewall suggestions
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Re: personal firewall suggestions

From: Casey Klc <casey@notspecified.net>
Date: Wed Nov 16 2005 - 00:40:17 CET

In article <437a4439@news.uni-ulm.de>, bumens@dingens.org says...
> Svempa <sven_olovl@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Mikaelsk is using Sygate. I can't understand why
> > he is willing to move to any other firewall 8-|
> > Sygate is best, f. the rest :)
>
> Sygate has a big design flaw as a "Personal Firewall" - its system
> services are opening windows. This is a security breach, because this
> opens additional attack vectors, your system does not have with the
> Windows-Firewall instead.
>
> Yours,
> VB.
>
What services are you referring to? OS services?
C
Received on Mon Nov 21 02:41:36 2005