Zonelabs Zonealarm firewalls on XP-systems delivers a constant flow of blocked attempts to access the computer. Another computer with windows vista also uses Zonealarm but the there are absolutely no blocked attemps listed in the log-windows. What's the reason: Is the firewall badly installed or does vista block the attemps before the firewall does so...?

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Gerhard Felsing

Kayman wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:02:13 +0100, Zeitzeuge wrote:
>

>> Zonelabs Zonealarm firewalls on XP-systems delivers a constant flow
>> of blocked attempts to access the computer. Another computer with windows
>> vista also uses Zonealarm but the there are absolutely no blocked attemps
>> listed in the log-windows. What's the reason: Is the firewall badly
>> installed or does vista block the attemps before the firewall does so...?

>
> PFW Criticism.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persona...all#Criticisms
>
> "Personal Firewalls" are mostly snake-oil.
> http://www.samspade.org/d/firewalls.html
>
> Why your firewall sucks.
> http://tooleaky.zensoft.com/
> "But I quickly realized the truth: The added protection provided by
> outbound filtering is entirely illusory."
>
> At Least This Snake Oil Is Free.
> http://msinfluentials.com/blogs/jesp...l-is-free.aspx
>
> Deconstructing Common Security Myths.
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tec...s/default.aspx
> Scroll down to:
> "Myth: Host-Based Firewalls Must Filter Outbound Traffic to be Safe."
>
> Exploring the windows Firewall.
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tec...l/default.aspx
> "Outbound protection is security theater—it’s a gimmick that only gives
> the impression of improving your security without doing anything that
> actually does improve your security."
>
> Managing the Windows Vista Firewall
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/m.../cc510323.aspx
>
> To remove ZoneAlarm completely from your computer in case normal uninstall
> can’t be run or doesn’t run properly...
> http://forums.zonealarm.com/zonelabs...message.id=103
> --or--
> http://zonealarm.donhoover.net/uninstall.html
> --or--
> Revo Uninstaller
> http://www.revouninstaller.com/
>
> Good luck

Thank you, son! That's exactly the sort of answer I expected...

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Gerhard Felsing