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From: Sauron on 31 Aug 2006 06:04 Bear Bottoms schreef: > On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:19:52 -0500, Sauron <Sauron(a)dontfeed.me> wrote: > > > and that test would be where? > > > --I research freeware http://bearbottoms1.com Sorry forgot to mention : shields up common port test,also have to mention that mcafee, kaspersky, jettico and so on have the same result there. -- A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000 words documents and calls it a "brief".
From: Sauron on 31 Aug 2006 06:09 Bear Bottoms schreef: > On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:19:52 -0500, Sauron <Sauron(a)dontfeed.me> wrote: > >> Bear Bottoms schreef: >>> On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 13:08:18 -0500, Allan Higdon >>> <alhigdon(a)mailinator.com> wrote: >>> >>>> On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:18:45 -0500, Bear Bottoms >>>> <bearbottoms1(a)cox.net> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 03:06:02 -0500, Sir Psycho >>>>> <totalharmonicdistortion(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi there, >>>>>> >>>>>> Now that Kerio Personal Firewall has gotten all bloated up im looking >>>>>> for an alternative. >>>>>> >>>>>> One of its handy fetaures was that it told you what program wanted to >>>>>> connect out, what protocol it used, what port and allowed you to >>>>>> create >>>>>> rules based on these connections. >>>>>> >>>>>> Has anyone found something similar thats lightweight? >>>>>> >>>>>> Thank you all >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Ashampoo...it's the best right now. http://bearbottoms1.com >>>>> >>>> >>>> I tried it out myself. >>>> When I used the ShieldsUp site (Common Ports), the ports were mostly >>>> Closed, with a few actually Open. >>>> No Stealth at all. >>>> A post from "Justme" on 8/24 mentioned the same result. >>>> >>> I'm running the test again now: >>> File sharing: >>> Attempting connection to your computer. . . >>> Shields UP! is now attempting to contact the Hidden Internet Server >>> within your PC. It is likely that no one has told you that your own >>> personal computer may now be functioning as an Internet Server with >>> neither your knowledge nor your permission. And that it may be >>> serving up all or many of your personal files for reading, writing, >>> modification and even deletion by anyone, anywhere, on the Internet! >>> Your Internet port 139 does not appear to exist! >>> One or more ports on this system are operating in FULL STEALTH MODE! >>> Standard Internet behavior requires port connection attempts to be >>> answered with a success or refusal response. Therefore, only an >>> attempt to connect to a nonexistent computer results in no response >>> of either kind. But YOUR computer has DELIBERATELY CHOSEN NOT TO >>> RESPOND (that's very cool!) which represents advanced computer and >>> port stealthing capabilities. A machine configured in this fashion is >>> well hardened to Internet NetBIOS attack and intrusion. >>> Unable to connect with NetBIOS to your computer. >>> All attempts to get any information from your computer have FAILED. >>> (This is very uncommon for a Windows networking-based PC.) Relative >>> to vulnerabilities from Windows networking, this computer appears to >>> be VERY SECURE since it is NOT exposing ANY of its internal NetBIOS >>> networking protocol over the Internet. >>> Common Ports: all ports are stealth >>> All Service Ports: True Stealth Analysis: all ports are stealth >>> Messenger Spam: No return Browser header: Opera...we know the >>> answer...great. >>> It completely passed the Shields up test as stealth. >>> Now for the LEAK TEST (specific firewall test) "drum roll": leak >>> test 1.x unable to connect. >>> So it passed all of the tests...what are you talking about???? >>> --I research freeware http://bearbottoms1.com >> >> I think he might refer to this : >> >> Ping Reply: RECEIVED (FAILED) — Your system REPLIED to our Ping (ICMP >> Echo) requests, making it visible on the Internet. Most personal >> firewalls can be configured to block, drop, and ignore such ping >> requests in order to better hide systems from hackers. This is highly >> recommended since "Ping" is among the oldest and most common methods >> used to locate systems prior to further exploitation. >> >> Run the test and this is the only thing that makes the test say True >> stealth analysis failed. >> > I passed both in true stealth...see above: > ShieldsUP! 45,054,203 system tests > The Internet's quickest, most popular, reliable and trusted, free > Internet security checkup and information service. And now in its Port > Authority Edition, it's also the most powerful and complete. Check your > system here, and begin learning about using the Internet safely. > > LeakTest 6,337,863 downloads > Ensure that your PC's personal firewall can not be easily fooled by > malicious "Trojan" programs or viruses. Thanks to this first version of > LeakTest, most personal firewalls are now safe from such simple > exploitation. > > > --I research freeware http://bearbottoms1.com Strange, I got the same result as yesterday : Ping Reply : RECEIVED (Failed). But I think someone posted already something about this part of the test in this ng some weeks ago, only can not find the message. -- A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000 words documents and calls it a "brief".
From: prophet on 31 Aug 2006 06:36 Allan Higdon wrote: > When I used the ShieldsUp site (Common Ports), the ports were mostly Closed, with a few actually Open. > No Stealth at all. Don't focus too much on "Stealth". It's not the end of the world if your ports are simply "Closed". An attacker can't do anything with/to a closed port, but it does tell him that a machine is running at that particular IP address and might make him want to scan all other ports for vulnerabilities (which shouldn't be a problem if you configured your system & firewall correctly).
From: John Fitzsimons on 31 Aug 2006 06:59 On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:51:44 -0500, "Bear Bottoms" <bearbottoms1(a)gmai.com> wrote: < snip > >I posted a link, but here it is again: >http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/05/12/security_aadgdfdddh_ah/ >The question is: does comodo include bundled software that does something >other than what a firewall does? It seems they do. Some may think it >harmless. I don't want any bundles and who knows what it really does. Exactly. IF the "LaunchPad" is as "innocent" as suggested then Comodo would respond to people's complaints and remove it. Their not wanting to suggests that there may be something going on that isn't being disclosed. Regards, John.
From: Al Klein on 31 Aug 2006 08:47
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:32:25 -0400, Rick Merrill <rick0.merrill(a)NOSPAM.gmail.com> wrote: >Jackie wrote: >> Buy a good NAT router, configure it correctly, put your box behind it, run a free antivirus, and keep your OS patched and don't run strange tings or MSIE/OE and you won' >> t need a "personal firewall." >unless you want to run FTP service ... Why can't you run FTP with a router? |