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Firewall Or Folly - An Initial Investigation Into The Effectiveness Of Personal Firewalls In Securing Personal Computers From Attack, Jeshua Yee
Research outputs pre 2011
With the increase in the use of Personal Computer (PC) firewall, this study looks at the security features provided by eight PC firewall; they are BlackICE, Deerfield, Kirio, MacAfee, Outpost, Sygate, Tiny and Zonealarm. The Nessus network scanner was used to probe these systems in a variety of configurations. The paper discusses the results and their implications for users of this new range of software.