Re: The Dreaded Personal Firewall
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Re: The Dreaded Personal Firewall

From: optikl <optik-mechanik@invalid.net>
Date: Sat Jan 28 2006 - 19:56:44 CET

brad_pitstain@yahoo.com wrote:

> I was excited to try the new Outpost firewall, but was let down when it
> let in spyware while refusing to learn which apps are trusted.
>

It's a *bad* idea to trust software to do the job you should be doing.
There is nothing magic about what Outpost does. It compares signatures
in its data base to the data it is filtering. Of course, no signature,
no match.
Received on Tue Feb 7 20:58:05 2006