Re: All these open ports
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 04:57, Tom Allison wrote:
> > At the risk of provoking the usual "WELL GO RUN WINDOWS THEN!!!"
> > knee-jerk reaction, I will mention that the Gatesware-based firewall
> > packages (like "Zone Alarm") will detect *outgoing* connection attempts
> > and query whether they are legitimate.
> >
> > There has been some dicsuscion on the net w/r/t the fact that apparently
> > the later (per)versions of Gatesware have some "trojans" embedded in the
> > OS, which will connect to Billsoft to report your social security
> > number, sexual preference, etc. etc. - the point being that (allegedly)
Well, there isn't any easy way i know of to do this on linux, however, it
really is a case of a solution in search of a problem. This sort of thing
really isn't an issue with free software, or really with any properly
designed system.
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