Zone Alarm Security Suite 6 £25 on Amazon. Any good?

wonderfullife_2

Hi
To check your firewall go to https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2, click Proceed, this will then take you to another page, where you can scan all your ports, to see if your fully protected.
I do this every couple of weeks.






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tomstickland

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.

Sounds good.

i tried that with Zone Alarm turned off and it made no difference, so I guess that that's the router security.

Your system has achieved a perfect "TruStealth" rating. Not a single packet — solicited or otherwise — was received from your system as a result of our security probing tests. Your system ignored and refused to reply to repeated Pings (ICMP Echo Requests). From the standpoint of the passing probes of any hacker, this machine does not exist on the Internet. Some questionable personal security systems expose their users by attempting to "counter-probe the prober", thus revealing themselves. But your system wisely remained silent in every way. Very nice.

I love it.

wonderfullife_2

Hi
Excellent results, just as they should be


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tigermatt

tomstickland wrote:

i tried that with Zone Alarm turned off and it made no difference, so I guess that that's the router security.

If you are behind a NAT router, its built-in firewall will do the blocking before the bad stuff even reaches your PC. The good thing about still using ZoneAlarm is it prompts you when a program tries to connect out. So if you have a virus trying to "call home" or something else over the Internet, ZoneAlarm will tell you about it and of course, you can "Deny" it. Always Deny anything you are unsure about because it can be allowed in the future via the ZoneAlarm control panel.

tigermatt

sionnach_2

if you want a really good firewall try sygate or black ice, avg free is a really good anti virus software and its free !!!!!:)

intel

sionnach wrote:

if you want a really good firewall try sygate or black ice, avg free is a really good anti virus software and its free !!!!!:)

Sygate will pose a problem in the Nr Future as its been dumped by
the new owners Symantec so no updated versions will be released.