Intrusion attempt?

Software firewalls are useless, full stop. They rarely report anything useful. But they do have there adavantages if there are transparent to the user.
 
Curiosityx said:
Software firewalls are useless, full stop. They rarely report anything useful. But they do have there adavantages if there are transparent to the user.
I agree :) About the only use I can see is as an "early warning system" if a "new" virus tried to "phone home" from a PC. Though, in practice, most people can't recognise this happening as they have got drowned in a click flood where they have got so used to ignoreing and dismissing excessive nag boxes that they don't read them any more (McAfee and Norton are especially bad at this).

A hardware firewall in your router is always the best bet. :) (Personally I use Freesco which is a small Linux distro that fits on a floppy and turns any old PC with two NICs into a decent router/firewall http://www.freesco.org)
 
Curiosityx said:
Software firewalls are useless, full stop.

No they're not.

Even though my network is sitting behind a PIX, the Windows machine still runs Zone Alarm so that I have control over programs on my PC accessing the internet. That way should some nasty get on there it'll be stopped from phoning home.
 
Burberryflop said:
No they're not.

Even though my network is sitting behind a PIX, the Windows machine still runs Zone Alarm so that I have control over programs on my PC accessing the internet. That way should some nasty get on there it'll be stopped from phoning home.

Personally i would use windows firewall policy settings distributed via GPO's then lock down the users desktop environment to prevent software installs and not give allow them local administrative privilages, in a home environment i can see where your comming from though.
 
I got the same security alert from NIS 2004 yesterday browsing OCUK forums - but the reference to Wolfenstein-et was a different IP / name.

The alert has some connection with sun java.

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