Zonealarm & 'Server Access'

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hi ron,

i think there is a difference in the access status. a service on your
machine is avalible from the outside if you give the programm a server
access. if you don't give it an access it couldn't.


yours richard


"Ron O'Brien" <ron@castcall.co.uk> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:AsqOc.81$r42.71@newsfe1-gui.ntli.net...
> I'm not a Firewall 'techie' so would like to know - in plain English -
What
> the 'Server Access' is all about in Zonealarm's program control.
>
> It doesn't seem to make any difference whether or not I give programs
Server
> access status or not.
>
>
> Ron O'Brien
>
>

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"dak" <comp-security-firewalls@spamtrap.cjb.net> wrote in message news:ifokg0dgj2sj2tnrrftjlf034ihsvse87v@4ax.com...
> On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 11:40:16 GMT, "Ron O'Brien" <ron@castcall.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >I'm not a Firewall 'techie' so would like to know - in plain English - What
> >the 'Server Access' is all about in Zonealarm's program control.
>
> A "server" listens, waiting for something/someone to contact it. You give a
> program server rights/access and you open a hole up in your firewall to allow
> something/someone to contact it. The port it listens on is no longer
> closed/stealthed, it is wide open.
> Unless you have a specific reason for allowing others to access your computer
> (I'm not talking about them sitting at your keyboard) then you don't need to
> allow server rights/access for anything.
>
> >It doesn't seem to make any difference whether or not I give programs Server
> >access status or not.
>
> It can, and eventually will. Deny server rights/access for everything, unless
> a program specifically needs it and you are aware why it does.
>
> --
> dak

I agree wholeheartedly. In particular, Windows XP includes SvcHosts.exe and it asks for server rights automatically. Other programs use SvcHosts.exe to access the internet so not granting server rights is important.

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Mike <honey@michaelmoyse.co.uk> squirted these wordjisms deep inside the
bumtube of the newstwat in news:cee2vj$6uo$1@thorium.cix.co.uk:

> Ron O'Brien wrote:
>
>> I'm not a Firewall 'techie' so would like to know - in plain English
>> - What the 'Server Access' is all about in Zonealarm's program
>> control.
>>
>> It doesn't seem to make any difference whether or not I give programs
>> Server access status or not.
>>
>>
>> Ron O'Brien
>>
>>
>
> No offence, but this is a prime example of why software firewalls will
> never be truly effective.
>


I think your point is that they would never be effective in the wrong
hands.

In the right hands, however - and by that I mean someone who respects the
power of their machine to sufficiently protect it - a software firewall is
adequate to deal with most threats.

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> David Qunt
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