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I wrote to the persons at Gibsons Research Shilds up and asked how we could
be sure about them. The reply I got is listed below. Now I don't think that
these magazines and news letters would want to get the accompanying bad
reputation that they'd get if the Shields Up service was doing that kind of
thing. But I still can't be 100% sure.
Brent
> Here is some of the reviews of Gibson Research's Shields Up! web
> site.
>
> FREE Internet Security Check
> by Fred Langa, This Week on Langa.Com & The LangaList
> <http://www.langa.com/newsletters/oct-14-99.htm#gibson>
>
> Is Your PC Open to Hack Attacks?
> by Stan Miastkowski, PC World Online
> <http://www.pcworld.com/pcwtoday/article/0,1510,13232,00.html>
>
> Protect your Windows PC with Steve Gibson's Shield's Up!
> by Paul Thurrott, WUGNET (Windows User Group Network)
> <http://www.wugnet.com/wininfo/display.asp?ID=2376>
>
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> Sincerely,
>
> Greg McIntyre
> Gibson Research
> Technical Support
----- Original Message -----
From: Levent Erbora <erbora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: 'JW' <JW@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; RT - Listserv <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 11:45 PM
Subject: RE: Security & persistent net connections
> How do we know that the guy himself is not a malicious cracker, and the
"tests" are not actually "trojan horses" ?????
>
> Just kidding, I passed the tests too, or DID I ??????????????
>
> paranoidally,
>
> Levent
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