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Question about Outpost firewall security password ! TheFox 05-30-2006
Posted by TheFox on May 30, 2006, 7:01 pm
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Hello,

I am testing the firewall outpost,

I have to detect a small problem of safety: i.e. when I puts a passwords
It is of course impossible to modify the configurations but when a new program
tries to reach Internet it
is possible to authorize the program without having to enter the password.

It is in the same way possible to Uninstall the program without authorization
(passwords).

It is not very protected, because people not knowing the problem which it could
has there to see with the
malicious program, could by inadvertency authorize the access to the network of
these dangerous programs.


I used "Zone Alarm Pro" which is made safe, each request for program access to
the network , is
conditioned at the entry of the good password . just as the uninstallation .
but zone alarm is very avid resource, this is why I wanted to pass to another
system of firewall .

The problem could it be due to my configuration or is this a limitation of
program ?

Many thanks in avance

Jack
Ps : sorry 4 my English





Posted by Volker Birk on May 31, 2006, 8:10 am
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> I am testing the firewall outpost,

Interesting. Does the actual versions have the flaw, too, that Windows
are opened by System-Services, which makes your computer possibly
vulnerable to privilege elevation attacks?

Are they still opening ridiculous popups all the time?

Makes Outpost your PC still vulnerable to a SeflDoS attack?

Can it still be disabled easily by local malware?

We tested version Agnitum Outpost Firewall Pro 2.5, and it was one of
the worst.

> I used "Zone Alarm Pro" which is made safe

Unfortunately, this is wrong. "Zone Alarm" is "phoning home" itself,
doing exactly the thing it is sold to you for preventing.

Yours,
VB.
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At first there was the word. And the word was Content-type: text/plain

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