Re: [OT] ZoneAlarm alternatives ??

["domdevitto" <dom@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Errr, ok.

Was going to evangelise here, but nope.  If you can't reconfigure your
firewall to allow fire sharing then I guess I've said about enough.

Dom
--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Ian Lowe" <ianlowe@...> wrote:
>
> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "domdevitto" <dom@> wrote:
> >
> > This is, simply, such bad advice.
> >
> > Dom
>
> It may not tie up with what you do in your professional life, but
isn't
> your exposure to the worst of this stuff colouring your views the
other
> way?
>
> It's a trade off - for me, the absolutley ridiculous difficulty in
> doing something as simple as mapping a drive to another machine on
your
> network on the fly just makes software firewalls a right royal pain in
> the ass.
>
> So, I disabled them and have not seen any problems whatsoever. I scan
> from time to time with Antispyware, and have found no problems. zero.
>
> Those of us who work with servers professionally may be paranoid about
> RAID, data security, backups and so on.. but we take a call based on
> the trade off between cost, functionality and the actual data being
> protected.
>
> I backup my important stuff, so if I had a malware problem, I would
> simply blow the OS away, re-install and put my stuff back on. no big
> deal - I'm not protecting trade secrets or financial systems.
>
> In the meantime, I have fast reliable networking rather than the usual
> parade of dodgy little problems that *always* go away when you turn
the
> damn software firewall off.
>
> as advice to the general public, fair enough, use the software
firewall
> and live with the problems. for anyone with an IT awareness, turn the
> damn thing off.
>
> I.
>