VPN's (fwd) - and personal firewalling

[David Gillett]

  While this ought reasonably to be true, our experience to date with
Altiga's 1.2x client (haven't tested 2.x yet) is that it locks up the client
machine if firewalling software is also active....

David Gillett
Enterprise Server Manager, Niku Corp.
(650) 701-2702


-----Original Message-----
From: VPN Mailing List [mailto:VPN at SECURITYFOCUS.COM]On Behalf Of Jon
Carnes
Sent: February 22, 2000 12:58
To: VPN at SECURITYFOCUS.COM
Subject: Re: VPN's (fwd) - and personal firewalling


If you are worried about your folks in the field (and you may well be!) then
I would suggest that you get them a decent firewalling program to run on
their boxen.  For $40, you can buy software that will protect their machine.
I like BlackIce Defender ( http://www.netice.com ), which monitors any
attempts to get into their computer and makes sure that the attempts fail.
It also tells you when someone has been trying.

The users can have the firewall program up and running and still VPN in to
the company site, or browse the web.
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