Re: Sygate firewall alternatives

On 20 Feb 2006 18:15:27 +0100, Volker Birk <bumens@dingens.org> wrote:

>"<----- Which Way ----->" <traxless@msn.com> wrote:
>> >> > unfortunally Sygate consumer firewall products has been discontinued.
>> >> I'm still using it though.
>> >Do you know its security design flaws?
>> I don't know it's securitydesing flaws. Could you like them for me?
>
>Sygate opens ports on 0.0.0.0 itself. It makes the PC on which is running
>vulnerable to the SelfDoS attack. And it installs a system service, which
>opens windows. The latter is a bad security design flaw, which contravenes
>against Microsoft's design guide for system services, and can be abused
>for privilege elevation.
>
>Sygate are showing this way, that they don't have a clue of designing
>secure software for Windows.
>
>Yours,
>VB.

Thank you for taking the time to explain this issue. I appreciate
your thoughtfulness.
Received on Mon May 1 00:52:00 2006