RE: IP-Cop sub for software firewall?

["Bob Crothers" <bob2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan,

Do you trust your spouce/kids to answer ZA messages correctly?  Or will they
just always answer "allow it to happen"?

My wife falls in the 2nd category and was very annoyed at the ZA messages.

If you have good antivirus/malware installed, you wont have to worry about
outbound traffic.

How many corp environments use ZA on their workstations?  Not many is my
guess.

JMHO,
Bob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Dan
> Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 10:03 AM
> To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
> Subject: Re: [PCTECH] IP-Cop sub for software firewall?
> 
> On 9/9/05, Bob Crothers <bob2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Dan,
> >
> > I'd call it a very good replacement for your software based firewall. It
> > protects your entire network...not just one machine.
> >
> > True, it doesn't do anything to stop outbound traffic, but if you are
> > diligent
> > with your virus/malware protection, that shouldn't be an issue.
> >
> > Bob
> 
> 
> Thanks Bob. You answered the question I didn't think of. It makes sense
> that
> IP-Cop can't manage outbound traffic and, for that, I would still need a
> Zone-Alarm or similar, right? Does Z-A monitor in-bound and, if so, is it
> possible/advisable to turn off Z-A's in-bound processes if I've got IP-Cop
> doing that job?
> 
> - Dan
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