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Date:	Tue, 30 Apr 2002 20:13:32 PST7
From:	Sheridan George <s-geo@usa.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: firewall failures

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Peter Skye wrote:
>
> leganii@surfree.com wrote:
> >
> > > Software firewalls apparently don't always work any more:
> > ********
> > Huh???
> > When did they always work?
> > What fantasy world have you arrived from? :-)
>
> The Duck Nebula?
>
> > I think you probably noticed that all the
> > products mentioned in that article are
> > peculiar to one particular venders OSs.
> > http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176213.html
>
> No, I didn't. That's interesting -- maybe a library problem?
>
> Who is the vendor? I've reread the article but don't see the common
> ground.
>
> - Peter
>

Sure you do - they are all software firewalls. Steve Gibson has a lot to say about software
firewalls. In short they can be useless (read helps the intruder) to easily circumvented unless
special planning and precautions are taken. That is why he recomends ZoneAlarm (which the article
says is one of the ones that is not fooled).

Sheridan

PS Don't give me any sass about a hardware firewall being a software one in reality because software
is what makes it go. A 'real' software firewall shares the CPU with the OS and other programs it is
trying to protect. That is why they have a special vulnerability.

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