08-29-2004, 02:00 PM
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AirScanner Releases Public Beta of Personal Firewall
AirScanner has just announced a public beta of their personal firewall product for WM2003 devices. It looks like a pretty slick, thorough firewalling package, and is freely available.
As to whether it's necessary, that's a tougher question. To this date, there haven't been any substantial remote exploits on Pocket PCs, although there might be vulnerable code in the OS that we just don't know about. It's a little scary that we might eventually have to firewall what was once simply a PIM. :| Personally, I'm going to wait a bit longer and see how things develop and evolve.
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08-29-2004, 02:51 PM
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Intellectual
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You hit the nail on the head. The pocket PC is no longer a PIM. It's way to sophisticated. If someone stole my PDA, they'd know every single thing about me. They'd also have access to my home pc, my network. Hmmm.... I think it's time I started using the password feature of my H6315
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08-29-2004, 03:03 PM
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Mystic
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As a phone edition user, Im more interested in a reverse firewall, that will protect me from trojan programs stealing my information and running up unnecessary GPRS costs. I install a lot of freeware, and there is just no way of knowing what the software is doing behind your back. As there is not any known networks exploits in win CE, I think that this is much more important functionality.
Surur
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08-29-2004, 04:05 PM
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Philosopher
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No we don't need a firewall to protect us just yet. Although I could see if you had the ability to have 2 ethernet cards how something like this could be used for a nice hardware based firewal.....
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08-29-2004, 05:15 PM
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Neophyte
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its only a matter of time until this becomes a necessity. with the amount of exploits in w2k and xp i am positive my i-mate will be susceptible to the same. a firewall looks like a better idea every day considering i have an always on connection to the interent on my pda. maybe kerio will come up with a nice solution.
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08-29-2004, 06:32 PM
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Intellectual
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Some corporate security network policies require that any device attached to their network have an active firewall installed to try and prevent anything from coming from the device to the corporate network. Consequently, this type of firewall software is going to be important for corporate use of handhelds.
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08-29-2004, 06:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Surur
As a phone edition user, Im more interested in a reverse firewall, that will protect me from trojan programs stealing my information and running up unnecessary GPRS costs. I install a lot of freeware, and there is just no way of knowing what the software is doing behind your back. As there is not any known networks exploits in win CE, I think that this is much more important functionality.
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agreed. when on wifi, you already have a decent hardware firewall on ythe router. the purpose of a software one is for upstream control.
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08-29-2004, 07:08 PM
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Originally Posted by nuka_t
agreed. when on wifi, you already have a decent hardware firewall on ythe router.
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Except when you use resources like public hotspots.  I haven't played at all with this software; I wonder if it does any outbound filtering.
--janak
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08-29-2004, 07:10 PM
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Well, now we have Anti-virus software and Firewall software for the PPC. What I'm waiting for is the Auto-update feature so MS can push WM2003SE to me like they are pushing XPSP2
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08-29-2004, 07:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Sven
What I'm waiting for is the Auto-update feature so MS can push WM2003SE to me like they are pushing XPSP2 |
Despite the little off-humor, this unmasks a serious point: the current ROM upgrade mechanism (i.e., wait for OEMs to post updates) doesn't scale well for critical updates... hopefully, Microsoft is thinking about ways of tackling this, as it may become a concern sometime in the near future.
--janak
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