[32024] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Security on a home DSL Line
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dennis Dayman)
Fri Nov 3 11:23:05 2000
From: "Dennis Dayman" <ddayman@mail-abuse.org>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 10:20:51 -0600
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> Hmm.. Zone Alarm is a nice product, but I'd prefer to use=20
> BlackIce Defender
> for all my Wintel boxes.
When I was Director at SBCIS we dev/null complaints coming in from =
BlackICE. It tends to report unnecessary information or attempts. It =
said things about TCP 80, it would report customers other windows boxes =
on the same home DSL line doing netbios, and sometimes depending on =
their mail client setup's would report them check their own E-Mail.
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Dennis Dayman=20
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