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Are firewalls really needed?
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New #42
Max, I was using Comodo until I discovered that Comodo sends information about the user's surfing to a third party. Maybe they don't do that any more; but I dropped Comodo.
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New #43
And then you have ZoneAlarm doing moronic things like this,
ZoneAlarm Global Virus Alert About ZeuS.Zbot.aoaq, Scareware At Its Best
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Zone Alarm!
It used to be one of the best but has gone to junk after they changed ownership a couple of years back.
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Do any of the Members who are reading this thread have any constructive comments and solutions regarding the use of a software Firewall to enhance the prevention of programs sending personal information they have gathered in our Win 7 computers out to the internet as so many of todays freeware programs have been instructed to do?
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And ZA flat does not work on most Win 7 systems. It is an almost guaranteed cause of BSOD's.@ Maxx i have used Comodo Firewall & Windows Firewall...i found Comodo much better then Windows though Comodo keep telling you at every stage while installing a software (changing system files,registry) which i found great but as @ jav said most of non-tech user won't know whats happening & while simply accept everything which might lead a virus enter the network...Windows Firewall is as well great but it allowed a virus without my knowledge & after a reboot i couldn't log inDo any of the Members who are reading this thread have any constructive comments and solutions regarding the use of a software Firewall to enhance the prevention of programs sending personal information they have gathered in our Win 7 computers out to the internet as so many of todays freeware programs have been instructed to do?
~Maxx~
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& then i have to do the repair to get things going for me :)...i don't know how that happened 
...but i agree with both u & jav but would like to tell you that i'm not using any Firewall & there are many people like me who are not using any firewall...i'm not saying that 1 shouldn't but like u 2 i'll say every1 should use a firewall if its 2 way then great!!!
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New #47
Well, here's the funny thing...
ZoneAlarm is now owned by Checkpoint Systems. I used to work with Checkpoint FW-1 product as it was required by our parent company at the last place I worked at.
Checkpoint is pretty darn expensive, and had some limitations, like I couldn't setup domains for web allowances, so for controlling user's internet browsing habits, we had to use ISA server and force proxy settings to make it happen.
ZoneAlarm itself, the few times I had to deal with it, I found it to be a bit restrictive and sometimes a little overbearing, especially when setting up VPN connections, ironically, this was for a user trying to setup a VPN connection to Checkpoint.
As for the recent article, I heard about that today on one of my readers and just shook my head. It is one of the things I normally criticize some of my users not to do, since the malware stuff does the same thing to trick people into doing something they shouldn't.
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Do you have documentation of this? From what I read there were some vague comments about Comodo's EULA which contains the same kind of legal jargon that MS has in their EULA only much milder about collecting user information and now the rumor has turned into these as yet undocumented accusations.
People need to wake op and realize who the real information gathering and dissemination enemy is. Most people have no idea that Google shares their information with everyone on the list of results that they get from them that's why I recommend using the Scroogle Scraper for truly anonymous and encrypted delivery of search engine results.
I try the best I can to be security conscious and this is why I am very interested in any documentation that you have about Comodo selling user information because it wouldn't be right to act on hearsay.
~Maxx~
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Last edited by Maxxwire; 21 Sep 2010 at 15:52.
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