[AccessD] OT: Firewall

Rocky,

You could say that monitoring outbound comms is your last wall of defense.
It should never happen, and won't if your AV program protects you perfectly.
If a virus does slip by and starts trying to phone home, the software
firewall will prevent the outbound comms and notify you that a program is
attempting to talk to the internet.

This level is not about preventing infection, but about discovering that you
are infected.  Imagine that somehow something slipped past, and was watching
you log in to everything you log into these days.  As it tries to ship that
info out to the perps, the software firewall prevents the transmission,
saving your bacon, as well as notifying you that the program is trying to
transmit.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com 

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-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin -
Beach Access Software
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 9:08 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Firewall


What is the risk with outbound comms?  Can you have a problem even though 
you're behind the router firewall? And if so, how?

Rocky

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Colby" <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'" 
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 4:25 AM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Firewall


>I am behind a router.  Software firewalls are great for checking up on  
>OUTBOUND comms.
>
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>
> Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause: 
> http://folding.stanford.edu/
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky 
> Smolin - Beach Access Software
> Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 12:27 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Firewall
>
>
> Are you behind a router firewall?  Is that sufficient?
>
> Rocky
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Colby" <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
> To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'"
> <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 3:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Firewall
>
>
>>I use Sygate personal on all of my machines.  Works fine, lasts a long 
>>time,  with proper maintenance.
>>
>> John W. Colby
>> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>>
>> Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause: 
>> http://folding.stanford.edu/
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky 
>> Smolin - Beach Access Software
>> Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 11:07 AM
>> To: AccessD at databaseadvisors.com
>> Subject: [AccessD] OT: Firewall
>>
>>
>> I\'m having a huge problem getting Zone Alarm on one of our computers 
>> I've used it for years with no problem, upgraded this one box from 
>> Version 3 to
>> the latest, it blocks internet access and give a page full of 
>> instructions
>> on how to solve the problem - none of which work.
>>
>> Uninstalled, reinstalled,  cleaned registry per their instructions, 
>> renamed the internet log, blah, blah.
>>
>> At the moment the machine is behind the router firewall (like all of
>> them) so I don't know if I should be too concerned but I've always 
>> run a firewall on each machine in addition to the hardware firewall 
>> in the Linksys.
>>
>> I'm not wedded to Zone Alarm and I'm looking at Sygate's product ( 
>> another free one : http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm) . 
>> Anyone know about this?  Any other recommendations for a personal 
>> firewall?
>>
>> Thanks and regards,
>>
>> Rocky
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