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Free Windows firewalls found better than commercial ones
hollowlife1987:
Seems a bit unfair to lump Windows Firewall in the list since it doesn't even pretend to block outgoing traffic !
-Carol Haynes (December 07, 2006, 07:56 AM)
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The new windows firewall in Vista does have the ability to block outgoing traffic.
mitzevo:
Seems a bit unfair to lump Windows Firewall in the list since it doesn't even pretend to block outgoing traffic !
-Carol Haynes (December 07, 2006, 07:56 AM)
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The new windows firewall in Vista does have the ability to block outgoing traffic.
-hollowlife1987 (December 07, 2006, 10:31 AM)
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Windows is getting ahead of every one! ;D
Rohit:
Hmm, so what does that mean then..? Outpost is a lier?!-mitzevo (December 07, 2006, 10:24 AM)
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It would seem so.
From the page about the leak test:
Another important result of our tests is firewall scoring against FPR. FPR stands for Fake Protection Revealer. This leak-test was implemented to reveal cheating on leak-tests. Outpost Firewall PRO 4.0 (971.584.079) was convicted of such cheating. It passes all leak-tests except FPR because of the implementation of user mode hooks (ring3) for security purposes. Our article Design of ideal personal firewall clearly says that ring3 hooks can not be used for security critical features. FPR does nothing but unhooks ring3 hooks which is always possible and thus bypasses such protection. This means that Outpost Firewall PRO cheats to be very strong against leak-tests but in fact it is very weak against real malware.
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(The emphasised text is from the original article, not from me.)
Carol Haynes:
Seems a bit unfair to lump Windows Firewall in the list since it doesn't even pretend to block outgoing traffic !
-Carol Haynes (December 07, 2006, 07:56 AM)
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The new windows firewall in Vista does have the ability to block outgoing traffic.
-hollowlife1987 (December 07, 2006, 10:31 AM)
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True but I presume they were testing Windows XP firewall ;)
Carol Haynes:
Hmm, so what does that mean then..? Outpost is a lier?!-mitzevo (December 07, 2006, 10:24 AM)
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It would seem so.
From the page about the leak test:
Another important result of our tests is firewall scoring against FPR. FPR stands for Fake Protection Revealer. This leak-test was implemented to reveal cheating on leak-tests. Outpost Firewall PRO 4.0 (971.584.079) was convicted of such cheating. It passes all leak-tests except FPR because of the implementation of user mode hooks (ring3) for security purposes. Our article Design of ideal personal firewall clearly says that ring3 hooks can not be used for security critical features. FPR does nothing but unhooks ring3 hooks which is always possible and thus bypasses such protection. This means that Outpost Firewall PRO cheats to be very strong against leak-tests but in fact it is very weak against real malware.
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(The emphasised text is from the original article, not from me.)
-Rohit (December 07, 2006, 11:12 AM)
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Not the only article accusing Outpost of cheating.
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