Tiny Personal Firewall A terrific FREE Firewall: For some reason I was unable to get TPFW to work on my main dual-processor Windows 2000 workstation. Therefore unwitting users might turn it on in order to eliminate the pop-up questions which are so necessary for end-user security (in the absence of pre-computed SHA1 hash signatures). My enduring complaint is that NO WHERE does Symantec explain the danger of their automatic rule creation. Without pre-computed signatures, and with automatic rule creation enabled, any malicious program can still masquerade as a "known" program to invisibly and silently gain unrestricted access to the Internet. The ONLY WAY automatic rule creation could ever be safe would be if their provided database were to include pre-computed SHA1 hash signatures for known programs. V 2.15+ Update to get version 2.15 or laterĪutomatic Rule Creation Just a BAD idea: At my urging, Symantec has changed the default setting for their product family's extremely unsafe automatic firewall rule creation to off. When version 2.0 is created it is likely that these results will change. In other words, the following firewalls are "Leak-Proof" ONLY relative to their behavior with version 1.0 of LeakTest. Therefore, the following results are expected to be accurate only for the first version 1.0 of LeakTest. Security is a constantly moving target and a never ending challenge. If you have experience with other personal software firewalls we hope you will share your experiences, or if your findings are different from those shown below, please come over to the grc.leaktest newsgroup and add your voice! The following information has been gathered by the combined effort of many terrific contributors to the grc.leaktest newsgroup. Internet Connection Security for Windows Usersīy Steve Gibson, Gibson Research Corporation
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |