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pgs92109 · 21-07-02, 11:25 PM

Alphabeater, from the Zone Labs/Zone Alarm website:

World-Class Protection Against Hackers

Any personal computer connected to the Internet is a potential target. Hackers randomly barrage Internet connected PCs with "pings" or "port scans", probing to find unprotected PCs. Once found, a hacker can compromise your PC with a dangerous Internet threat - Trojan horse, spyware or malicious worm.

ZoneAlarm Pro's TrueVector® technology combines a personal firewall with Program Control to protect your PC from intrusions and hostile attacks. ZoneAlarm Pro's firewall barricades your PC with immediate and complete port blocking. And, then runs in Stealth Mode to make your PC invisible on the Internet - if you can't be seen, you can't be attacked.

So, basically you are saying that you can't be hacked into unless you are accessing the internet through certain programs. By exempting the ports these programs use from Zone Alarm's protection (so that you can use the program), you expose yourself to hacking through those ports. You are also saying that Zone Alarm "protects" ports that can't be hacked into anyway, because they are closed. Is that right?

JS: it sounds like there are disadvantages to firewalls I didn't know about, and that you've done fine without one (due probably to all the reasons Alphabeater lists).

It sounds like if you are on the internet and they want to get in, they'll get in regardless of whether you have a firewall or not.

21-07-02, 11:25 PM	#12
pgs92109 Senior Napsterite Join Date: Apr 2000 Posts: 184	Alphabeater, from the Zone Labs/Zone Alarm website: World-Class Protection Against Hackers Any personal computer connected to the Internet is a potential target. Hackers randomly barrage Internet connected PCs with "pings" or "port scans", probing to find unprotected PCs. Once found, a hacker can compromise your PC with a dangerous Internet threat - Trojan horse, spyware or malicious worm. ZoneAlarm Pro's TrueVector® technology combines a personal firewall with Program Control to protect your PC from intrusions and hostile attacks. ZoneAlarm Pro's firewall barricades your PC with immediate and complete port blocking. And, then runs in Stealth Mode to make your PC invisible on the Internet - if you can't be seen, you can't be attacked. So, basically you are saying that you can't be hacked into unless you are accessing the internet through certain programs. By exempting the ports these programs use from Zone Alarm's protection (so that you can use the program), you expose yourself to hacking through those ports. You are also saying that Zone Alarm "protects" ports that can't be hacked into anyway, because they are closed. Is that right? JS: it sounds like there are disadvantages to firewalls I didn't know about, and that you've done fine without one (due probably to all the reasons Alphabeater lists). It sounds like if you are on the internet and they want to get in, they'll get in regardless of whether you have a firewall or not.