Mandrake SNF

[Dustin Decker]

On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

> To tell you the truth, the 6.2 box does everything I need PLUS gives me a
> linux box to play with at home or at work.  What I'm really after is das
> blinkenlights - the cool attack graphs that Zone Alarm produces.
> 
> (Tried running ZA on my computer at work - got it balled up bad enough that
> I had to uninstall it.)

Hehe... most of the personal firewalls are like this.
I tend to view them as silicon snake oil.  They generate revenue based 
on a high number of false positives, giving the average user a false 
sense of security.  But since the lights blink a lot, well by golly, it 
must have been worth my $50.00.

Dustin

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