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We have leak-tested more firewalls (namely Ashampoo, Avira and Privatefirewall) and started with testing of new versions of already tested products.
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New Leak-tests
Started by Humpty, Jan 16 2007 08:54 AM
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Posted 16 January 2007 - 05:48 PM
How much faith can you put in all these different tests ?
If you took notice of them all you would be changing your security applications every other day.
My firewall is Norton, and I`ve never had anything through, although it ranks poorly in this test.
I`m not an expert , but I think a measure of effectiveness is simply how much stuff gets through or not.
Be your own judge IMHO, and change if you think it neccessary.
And it could be a case of having the right combination. System Synergy I think is a good term.
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If you took notice of them all you would be changing your security applications every other day.
My firewall is Norton, and I`ve never had anything through, although it ranks poorly in this test.
I`m not an expert , but I think a measure of effectiveness is simply how much stuff gets through or not.
Be your own judge IMHO, and change if you think it neccessary.
And it could be a case of having the right combination. System Synergy I think is a good term.
Regards
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Posted 16 January 2007 - 06:53 PM
Not completely convinced by those results. I still use Sygate and its passed (full stealth/invisible) every online test I've tried, yet it scores 'very poor'.
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Posted 16 January 2007 - 08:16 PM
I'm also skeptical of it. And it would have been nice if they would have compared results of using software-based firewalls vs. hardware-based firewalls. Also when using a hardware-based firewall with a software-based firewall installed.
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Posted 17 January 2007 - 04:54 PM
I remember before when the leak test was announced and BlackIce didn't pass it, and they made a new version that blocked the leaktest process/file so people was led to believe it passed the leak-test when it actually didn't since it was hardcoded to block the leaktest.
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