Sunday, August 29, 2004
AirScanner Releases Public Beta of Personal Firewall
Posted by Janak Parekh in "SOFTWARE" @ 06:00 AM
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.
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.
