How good is your firewall?

GaryS

T4i wrote:

http://www.dslreports.com/scan

Your Results for this scan
Conclusion: Healthy Setup! We could detect no interesting responses from any of the commonly probed TCP and UDP ports. It would be difficult for an attacker to know where to start without further information.
TCP ALL FILTERED No response packet was received.
UDP ALL FILTERED No response packet was received.

albertross_2

scl wrote:

I have ports 80 & 443 open
any advice please

XP SP2
Zone Alarm
AVC
Adware
Spybot

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=163698&highlight=pa2.zonelabs.com

albertross_2

GaryS wrote:

Security is set up via 128 bit WEP encryption and MAC address access list.

If anybody has any further suggestions, let me know.

disable ssid broadcasting and use wpa-psk with a long random key from https://www.grc.com/passwords

WEP is crackable

scl_2

Lob_Rockster wrote:

then the ports open are really on your PC....
do you have a webserver locally? Because it looks like ZA has these ports open (80 is for http, 443 is for https).

What happens if you click on this http://localhost ?

Hi Lob Rockster

"Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at localhost"

ran dslreports no problems
ran grc again no problems

suppose it isent that great

Thanks for the help

Lob_Rockster

well that does not sound so bad....at least there seems to be no webserver on that machine.

But the firewall should set these ports to closed....

Slapps

thank you op as i have just checked my pc ( that is on a wireless connection) and there's no way in lol so all my !!!!!! is safe
ops lol

Slapps

tranmererovers

I've got a pretty good firewall in the router so most of the ports are stealth. The only problem I have is because my network server needs to accept SMTP communications HTTP and HTTPS connections, I have to have these ports open unfortunately.

I have just installed Sygate Personal Firewall and the test on the Sygate Site and the shields up site both show that I have HTTP and HTTPS ports open as Tiger Matt, all other tests have come back OK. Should I be worried about these ports being open - what is the risk, can I do anything else to minimise it?

Thanks in anticipation

Toxteth_OGrady

For external security testing I use Security Space. They have 3 types of free audit; No Risk, Basic and Single Test.

I actually pay the $9.95 pa for their Desktop Audit.

:cool:

TOG