[BBLISA] Firewall question #2

[miah]

Unless the external hardware is vulnerable to attack.  Which some is, and the quality is seriously lacking on some router hardware.  What about a virus that infects your computer, then attacks your router, changes its configuration to allow incoming connections..  I'm sure it will happen.


-miah

On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 10:09:46AM -0500, John Orthoefer wrote:
> It comes down to the halting problem.   So you can write a virus that 
> disables zone alarm, zone alarm can't stop all virus.
> 
> External hardware is harder to for a virus to infect than something like 
> zonealarm.
> 
> johno
> 
> Eric smith wrote:
> 
> >Just as an aside to these points, I believe there already has been a 
> >virus that altered the "allowed" software list for zonealarm.  I 
> >believe zonealarm now protects against this (probably 
> >encrypts/checksums the list.)
> 
> 
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