Re: A password problem about Zone Alarm.. really need help!

Volker Birk wrote:
> John <ModelMan@spamex.com> wrote:
>> Each time I install something I am informed of exactly what app
>> wants to connect to what location on the net.
>
> No, that's not true.
>
> Each time you're installing something, which lets you control it,
> you're informed. Each time, you're installing something, which does
> not want to be controlled, you're not informed.
>
> No "Personal Firewall" can control software you're installing, if this
> software does not want to be controlled.
>
> So you just have the illusion, that you're in control.
>
> It's only an illusion, because especially those things have to be
> controlled, which don't want to be controlled.
>
>> I will take your point as you yourself not needing one and
>> finding them useless.
>
> You may have other usage for "Personal Firewalls" than for security
> purposes. This I will not discuss here. This is a security group. Here
> I will reference security without explicitely telling you.

 I don't see how this is a security group if it says firewalls then it is
firewalls regardless if security or other things are included.

>
> BTW: this is, what providers of "Personal Firewalls" are selling:
> the illusion to be in control. They're selling dreams.

I still don't see you as making any sense. I don't set any warning other
than my PFW telling me if any part of what I am installing wants to monitor
my keystrokes. If I have a keylogger or spyware how do you tell other than
running a scan which takes longer than a pop-up.

>
> Yours,
> VB.
>> was ist wenn $BACKUPSERVER und $PRODUKTIVSERVER in einem Gebäude,
>> Stockwerk oder Serverraum stehen und die Löschanlage (Fehlfunktion
>> oder Brandfall) die komplette IT zerstört
> Murphy meets Darwin. (Timm Thiemann zu Thomas Wildgruber in d.a.s.r)
Received on Tue Feb 7 20:59:26 2006