How good is your firewall?

albertross_2

which ports did it fail on?

mr_fishbulb

Port 135 was wide open! :eek:

Stupid Sygate. Fixed it now.

pchelpman

paulb369uk > agreed what others have said. The Windows firewall is next to useless.

As wolfman says Sunblet Kerio is good ...
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/Kerio.cfm

... as is Zone Alarm ...
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp

Either will serve you well.

Also install SpywareGuard from the same people that give you Spywareblaster
... http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareguard.html

.... and Windows Defender ...
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx

.....and Spybot Seartch & Destroy ...
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/

[Enable TeaTimer in Spybot's Advanced Tools to bolster up your with "real time" protection].

T4i

GRC Port Authority Report created on UTC: 2006-03-30 at 10:12:42

Results from scan of ports: 0-1055

0 Ports Open
0 Ports Closed
1056 Ports Stealth

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1056 Ports Tested

ALL PORTS tested were found to be: STEALTH.

Lots of dicussions as to how good grc actualy is!!

pchelpman

T4i wrote:

Lots of dicussions as to how good grc actualy is!!

Thanks for the "head up" on this, T4i. I didn't realise this. Can you give me some links to these disucssions please so I can see what others are saying. So far I've only heard good things of it so would be interested to learn more.

T4i

Just been looking but cant seem to find it anymore.

Sure it was something along the lines of grc-hoax.com

I'll keep trying to find, very interesting read about the guy who writes for GRC. ALOT of network experts challanged his methods into port testing and over stuff.....

T4i

Been updated since I last read it.

http://www.grcsucks.com/

Reading again now, but from the 1st couple paragrpahs it seems like steve isnt the expert some of us think he is.

Ditto

I just use the Windows firewall.

I have F-Prot anti virus and Giant anti spyware and have no problems with my conpter, plus I passed the tests above

mr_fishbulb

T4i wrote:

Lots of dicussions as to how good grc actualy is!!

It did identify my port 135 as open, and then when I found how to fix it, it identified it at stealthed.

wolfman

Yeah I've seen similar. It generally refers to knowlegde at a higher level though. It's a good site to use, especially for the average user to see if they have any basic vulnerabilities. And I don't know of any better equivalent. The leaktest is a little basic, but the Shields Up service is good considering it's free.