6 Dec 2001 17:22:00

Gregor feels miffed.

   From: Gregor Freund
   Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 17:22:00
     To: Tom Liston
Subject: RE: ZoneAlarm / OutBound!

Tom:

At one point you'll have to decide if you would like to work with us 
on a technical issue or if you want to call every journalist that 
comes to your mind. You can't have it both ways if you would like to 
have a trusted relationship.

As to the issue with blocked packets. In ZoneAlarm Pro you can allow 
or suppress various packets (in Alerts/Advanced). We try very hard 
to keep the product from being to noisy. In basic ZoneAlarm these 
settings are hard-wired. In addition the firewall (that you allege 
we don't have ) normally only generates one alert per connection. 
It then remembers the state and drops any additional packets without 
alert. Keep in mind, it's a stateful inspection firewall and the 
state can be either negative (meaning drop subsequent packets) or 
positive (meaning accept subsequent packets).

Also showing every single packets is very CPU intensive and we have 
to avoid DoS situations.

We've got the NT issues resolved so expect a new beta this week, 
maybe today.

Regards,

Gregor

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