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Article: Firewalls plug holes revealed by security test.(Product Information)
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- Network World
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- January 31, 2001
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Several personal firewall vendors have released patches or updates to their software to address vulnerabilities found by PC security guru, Steve Gibson.
Most commercial firewalls flunked a test devised by Gibson in December. His Trojan horse simulation, called LeakTest, checks whether a firewall is too trusting in the way it exempts some Internet applications from firewall restrictions.
Only ZoneAlarm, from Zone Labs Inc., passed Gibson's initial test. The remaining vendors immediately promised patches.
Those whose personal firewalls were fooled by LeakTest included Symantec Corp., Sygate Technologies Inc., Network Associates inc., and ...