Re: Firewall on ICS/NAT clients

[Mick Furlong <dorsai@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 8 Dec 2000 17:09:03 -0000, you wrote:

>I've just been looking through some of the FAQs on the ZoneAlarm web
site,
>and they recommend installing Zonealarm on NAT clients, as well as the
ICS
>gateway. Is this really necessary? I thought one of the benefits of NAT
is
>that client machines are invisible to the outside world.

Problem is that a trojan can still give out information from your PC
from behind a NAT connection.

You download something that has a trojan and run it....the trojan
looks for any interesting data and sends it to the person who wrote or
configured the trojan.

Zonealarm prevents this by letting you authorise the programs that can
send out data. so if for example notepad tries to access the internet
zone alarm will ask you if you want to let it...I would suggest not ;)

Mick

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