Re: software firewall that allows inter-process traffic control?

Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers <usenet-2005@planetcobalt.net> wrote:
> jKILLSPAM.schipper@math.uu.nl wrote:
>> Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers <usenet-2005@planetcobalt.net> wrote:
>>> Alex Hunsley wrote:
>>>> I'm looking for a software firewall that allows inter-process traffic
>>>> control. For example, to give me the opportunity to forbid a certain
>>>> program to access an HTTP proxy running on my own computer.
>>>
>>> That's not possible.
>>
>> No, it doesn't seem too useful, but it is possible, at least on many
>> computer systems.
>
> Wrong. He wants to prevent a certain program from accessing the proxy.
> That's simply impossible because all I have to do is stick a proxy of my
> own between them.

Well, that gets a little harder when you use whitelists instead of
blacklists, as you should, but yes.

There are probably quite a few ways around it, and it is of course
nonsense if the blocked program runs with administrator rights, as is
likely the case on Windows, but it's not *impossible*.

Just pretty senseless, and very nearly impossible to get right.

                Joachim
Received on Sat Dec 3 04:19:04 2005