Contributed by sean on from the the pot calling the kettle awesome dept.
This has been announced on Daemon News: OpenBSD has been named best firewall for Windows machines, by a Windows newsletter. The only problem is, of course, that OpenBSD is an entire Operating System, and not just a piece of software for Windows... See link for more details.
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By Anonymous Coward (207.179.108.79) on
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By ø.s (80.203.78.106) on
" Over 100 Unique Windows NT/2000/2003 Tools And Utilities Finalists!
Voted on by you and other NT/2000/2003 Administrators, MIS Managers, MCPs,
MCSEs and IT professionals from around the world! "
hehe
By chort (69.17.34.75) on http://www.smtps.net/email-sec/
Not that I don't think OpenBSD is worthy, but those results are really kooky.
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By chort (69.17.34.75) on http://www.smtps.net/email-sec/
Oh well, plenty of other areas in this "awards" display are suspect too, so it's not surprising at all. Probably the results have more to do with certain vendors lobbying their customers to vote and most administrators being pretty clueless to the different technologies, so they either a) voted only because they got pointed to it by their vendor (NetIQ, Panda?), or b) just voted for what they knew (Microsoft).
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By Peter N. M. Hansteen (194.54.103.99) peter@bgnett.no on http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/
Now I too wonder if they're aware it's not actually a Windows app.
By Denis Solaro (81.248.37.207) on
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By krh (207.75.179.48) on
It sounded like they had their readership vote, a very unsatisfactory way to determine quality but an excellent way to determine popularity. Their description of their security measures at the bottom of the article, "Votes are tracked by IP address and cookies are placed on voter's workstations to reduce multiple voting by one user," is laughable.
However, the aspect of the awards which most undermines my confidence is that Sunbelt Software owns and runs W2KNews, yet also competed for a full quarter of the possible awards (see http://www.sunbelt-software.com/targetawards/2004/2004.cfm). Indeed, the product displayed most prominently on their home page is iHateSpam for Exchange--the self-same winner of W2KNews's poll!
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