New Pg Blocklist For Zonealarm, I Did All The Work

[james_bond_rulez]

today is just so many fking changes i can't keep up, first the ircspy news about canadian isps, then the letter from my isp, then the pg thing...

it's too much man

[james_bond_rulez]

ok i made another update, everybody should update theirs too

[dingdongding]

also it's just been confirmed that using zaupdate slows down the reaction time of zapro4 and on as far as blocking web sites from loading- forcedfx will look into it

and if you have the right ip list you should have over 2100 ranges in it
http://klboard.ath.cx/index.php?showtopic=84759

[james_bond_rulez]

Originally posted by dingdongding@29 November 2003 - 04:37
also my hunch is that zapro is not able to handle all the ranges under the current xml setup - so ppl shouldn't be relying on zapro as their only defense

ddd

what else do you suggest?

a sound firewall with an incorporated and updated blocklist is the best you can get....

what more do you expect?

[james_bond_rulez]

Originally posted by dingdongding@29 November 2003 - 05:35
also it's just been confirmed that using zaupdate slows down the reaction time of zapro4 and on as far as blocking web sites from loading- forcedfx will look into it

and if you have the right ip list you should have over 2100 ranges in it
http://klboard.ath.cx/index.php?showtopic=84759

yes i updated my stuff on the first page, with 2183 ips blocked, ppl should get it

[dingdongding]

well for one i definitely wouldn't rely on zaupdate with zapro4 as your only defense given that it slows down the reaction time of zapro4 in blocking web sites (and that's just a simpe test on blicking urls)

as for zapro4 in general as i said it was a hunch but i'm pretty sure REALITY checked with zone labs/zone alarm and their response to importing ranges in general is that they didn't design it to handle that many

[james_bond_rulez]

so what? it works for me and didn't even notice a slow down and wutnot

za coupled with the blocklist is the best defense you could possibly have, slow down? maybe.. noticeable? not really

[dingdongding]

like i said draw any conclusion you want lol- letting peeps know the info as i come across it- forcedfx tried the manual option of importing and confirmed it was quicker as far as zapro4 blocking the urls

i prefer to go by tests/results instead of assuming what you do:

za coupled with the blocklist is the best defense you could possibly have

let me know when you can back up that opinion

[RealitY]

No offense to the makers of ZAUpdate here but I'm not relying on this at all. Zone Alarm tech has stated to me that the xml was not designed for this in any way.

The standard importing with something like Blocklist Manager works very well but upon much testing I did was shotty after around 300 ranges.

As for ZAUpdate it appears to have issues as well and I suspect more to come. It appears to me maybe Sysgate is a better option for now, though I didn't care for it and still use ZA.

Untill Zone Alarm chooses to support this type of xml useage I advise on not using it for this purpose unless you intend on having a smaller amout of ranges with the regular import style.

@JBR, so I take it Canadians are getting letters now, I thought you were untouchable...

[james_bond_rulez]

heh guess again

i sleep one day and wake up the next and found myself in a puddle of poop!!!

i've started getting rid of all the "evidence" shredding digital files, destroying copied cds, acidify hdds...