Zone Alarm 5 Beta Review

An anonymous reader writes "ZoneAlarm is getting ready to announce version 5 of its security software firewall, ZoneAlarm. Though there are a few changes that are presently available on the new beta, this review mentions that there are still many security issues to resolve. Grc.com scan reveals that ZoneAlarm Beta 5 failed to close port 25 and fails to give useful information to the user about possible security services being shut off."

Comments

Re:Wait, do we respect Gibson now?

[phaze3000]

Wouldn't say this was a troll at all, just a fair comment about a man with a massively over-inflated opinion of his capabilities:

Remember the time he 'invented' TCP SYNcookies six years after they were actually created?. To be fair to him, his SYNcookies proposal wasn't the same as what had already been suggested - his had some pretty major omissions that made it unworkable.

Or the time he predicted the end of the Internet with the introduction of raw sockets into Windows XP, or earlier because of Code Red?

If one is supposed to be doing a firewall test then a *proper* port scanning utility such as the excellent nmap should be used, rather than a tool on the website of a known netkook.