Re: Agnitum Outpost blocking everything

Art wrote:
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 21:07:23 GMT, "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

..until you catch some malware that your anti-virus program isn't
looking for (a trojan?), or something that gets implanted between your runs of Ad-Aware and SS&D, both of which are on-demand scanners, not resident programs.

Malware can easily defeat sw firewalls.

Regarding that, do you know if said malwares generally target only the prominent firewalls (Norton, McAfee, ZoneAlarm..) or do they look for all the others (Kerio, Sygate, etc), too?

The idea is to not take hits in the first place. And there are a
number of utils and methods of checking internet activity besides a
sw firewall.


I'm aware. <g>

A sw firewall isn't particulaly demanding of RAM and other system resources nowdays, so if it gives users the warm fuzzies to use one, by all means use one. But it's unnecesary ... just as realtime
av is unnecessary.

Probably still better than nothing, as certainly all malware won't be disabling them.

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