RE: OffTopic Security ZoneAlarmPro & TS6 & Windows2000

["Dennis Todd" <dtodd@xxxxxxxxx>]

Alan,

The real question is, why do you feel the need to have both hardware
firewall AND software firewall as well. I have Syslink router/firewall and
that is it. Nothing so far, in the past year has gotten past it. What is it
you expect to happen that the hardware firewall is not going to protect?

I tried both BlackIce and ZoneAlarm. They just add to the system overhead of
your system and they both are not perfect. The router firewall has a much
better chance of stopping anyone from getting past it than the software.

Just my opinion here, but my experience would be to trust the hardware
firewall before the software firewall.

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Courchene [mailto:positionsize1@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 8:22 AM
To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: OffTopic Security ZoneAlarmPro & TS6 & Windows2000


Hello List,

For increased security, I just replaced BlackIce
Defender with ZoneAlarmPro. This was in addition to an
already existing Hardware firewall(router). I noticed
that Win2000Pro has 2 Apps requesting access to the
Internet(Hmm-mm) and TS6 has 4 separate Apps
requesting access to the Internet.

I am interested to know if others have found similar
things with ZA and Win2000.

I have thus far only enabled IE5, TS6,
Netsacape4,Eudora,Qcharts and Qfeed Server Select for
Internet access in ZApro.

Win2000Pro:
1)Generic Host Process for Win32 Services(svchost.exe)
2)Service and Controller App(SERVICES.EXE)

SERVICES.EXE appears to have been given permission to
connect to the Internet apparently as a result of some
other app being enabled such as TS6.

Svchost.exe Appears in the Program settings list but
was not given permission to connect to the Internet.

I an curious, Does anyone Know why these two
executables need the Internet and would appear
unsolicited in the ZA the Program settings list?


Also,
TS6:
1)Omega Research Client access layer(ORCAL.exe)
2)TradeStation Platform(ORPlat.exe)
3)TradeStation Technologies Custom DLL
Surrogate(ORDIIHst.exe)
4)TSHelp Module(TSSupp.exe)

The Custom DLL Surrogate looks a bit fishy. Anyone
know
what its Internet function would be?

Thanks,

Alan C.