Firewalls (was RE: Hackers)

Take a look at

http://www.networkice.com/

BlackICE Defender

We installed this (easily!) after we went to DSL at home and it worked
great.  There is a caveat about BlackICE returning "false positives" on DSL
lines for what is ordinary network traffic.  With this in mind, it didn't
bother me that the occasional "warnings" would coming from IPs from my own
provider.  Once you realize that "network traffic" or not, BlackICE is
catching it and telling you about it (and most importantly, not letting
folks in)  you learn to tell the traffic from the probes.

We were very happy with it and would probably still be using it except now
all the Windows boxes are networked and hiding behind a locked-down Linux
box ;)   ::: viva la linux :::

Karin


----- Original Message -----
From: Webmaster, Aurora Web Design <webmaster(at)aurorawebdesign.com>
To: HWG techniques <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 3:54 PM
Subject: RE: Hackers


> Re the concern over this thread. I have cable, and was using Zone
> Alarm but while I was happy with it, I became convinced that it
> was causing other problems, and uninstalled it. Does anyone have
> any suggestions of a good firewall that is similar, preferably
> free, but at least not an arm and a leg. While my ISP claims they
> have safeguards for cable systems on all the time, I did get
> alerts of programs trying to get in when I had Zone Alarm working.
> It worries me that now maybe they ARE getting in. Suggestions for
> firewalls welcome.
>
>
> > Recently, I found files on my own hard drive, placed
> > there by a hacker (no
> > damage was done) who simply ran a program on the
> > Internet checking for
> > unprotected networked Windows machines and wrote the
> > files to disk on them.

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