[40805] in bugtraq
Re: Windows host based firewall tester
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Morten Torstensen)
Wed Oct 19 13:31:39 2005
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Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 08:23:17 +0200
From: Morten Torstensen <morten@mortent.org>
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To: Tim <pand0ra.usa@gmail.com>, bugtraq@securityfocus.com
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Tim wrote:
> http://www.firewallleaktester.com/tests.htm
>
> So, after hearing about Kerio being discontinued I started poking
> around and someone posted a like to this site. Has anyone used this
> site? Some of this seems kinda sketchy to me, especially the testing
> methods. I am probably going to go setup some VM machines sometime and
> test out this software. I would really like to hear about people's
> experiences about this site, if any.
It seems like he only do outbound testing? Not very helpful and quite limited
then. Outbound protection is important, but not that important. It's a second
line of defence. I prefer to stop threats before they get inside. A test of
inbound protection would be more useful, IMHO.
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