Showing posts with label Firewall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Firewall. Show all posts

Monday, December 17, 2007

Zone Alarm & Ask.com Toolbar, Money For Them, Annoyance For You

Well Zone Alarm has decided to try and make a few buck off unknowing users.

Following Webroot's lead, they've added a 'spyblocker'\toolbar. Of course the install option is already ticked for your convenience, isn't that nice of them? Ummm...no thanks ZA.

And by pre-ticking that lil box, it almost guarantees many installs, thereby leading to mucho money for ZA and of course Ask.com a well. Vent your
anger here....

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Two Good Reads: Google Security Efforts & Firewall Testing

Google has recently rolled out a security blog and released a technical paper and now the just bought out an anti-malware company as well. And one of their employees wrote a cool app for webmasters to check and see if their sites have
malicious code.
Read & Discuss Here

And I stumbled upon a neat write up showing a bunch of firewall testing tools to see how secure you really are. Read & Discuss Here

Digg links for both on respective page.