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kronas · 02-07-2003, 17:22

zonelabs the makers of the popular free software firewall are refusing to fix a vulnerabilty in its zonealarm firewall by saying 'its a problem with windows not the program itself'

using the shell32.dll found in windows a malicious hacker would have to load a trojan on the victims pc and lure the firewall in to accepting the command using the windows shell32.dll file

also a poster on the bugtraq network has claimed the $39.95 version of zonealarm has better protection as you can control anything that acesses the internet

zonelabs has said that it is not a serious flaw it would require a skilled hacker in order to execute such action rather then your average 'script kiddie'

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1167027,00.asp

02-07-2003, 17:22	#1
kronas Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: heckmondwike Age: 40 Posts: 10,767	zonealarm vulnerabilty 'wont be fixed' zonelabs the makers of the popular free software firewall are refusing to fix a vulnerabilty in its zonealarm firewall by saying 'its a problem with windows not the program itself' using the shell32.dll found in windows a malicious hacker would have to load a trojan on the victims pc and lure the firewall in to accepting the command using the windows shell32.dll file also a poster on the bugtraq network has claimed the $39.95 version of zonealarm has better protection as you can control anything that acesses the internet zonelabs has said that it is not a serious flaw it would require a skilled hacker in order to execute such action rather then your average 'script kiddie' http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1167027,00.asp