free P.C security test suite

biddy79uk

click here for your's
:beer:

Browntoa

Windows XP warns you if you do not have a valid Firewall or Anti-Virus

http://www.grc.com/lt/leaktest.htm

is a well recognised and respected PC security testing site

and their scorecard of firewalls

http://www.grc.com/lt/scoreboard.htm

Poppycat

No problems with both sites at my end using Kaspersky internet security 2006 (latest sigs) you may be getting false readings particularly as I no grc.com are a good source and Browntoa is good on security.

snagglepuss

Poppycat wrote:

No problems with both sites at my end using Kaspersky internet security 2006 (latest sigs) you may be getting false readings particularly as I no grc.com are a good source and Browntoa is good on security.

EDIT I see you removed one post snagglepuss that mentioned malware W32/new-malware!Maximus that biddy79uk posted.

Hi Poppycat I removed the other post as I used a quote from biddy's post by mistake. I am using pc guard at the moment and had to delete two files which were infected with the above named malaware after I clicked on browntoas link so I just thought I need warn others just in case.After all better safe than sorry as I am sure you will agree.I have edited my other post as you say browwntoa is good on security he must have checked it out but it definately infected my system...

Browntoa

snagglepuss wrote:

Hi Poppycat I removed the other post as I used a quote from biddy's post by mistake. I am using pc guard at the moment and had to delete two files which were infected with the above named malaware after I clicked on browntoas link so I just thought I need warn others just in case.After all better safe than sorry as I am sure you will agree.I have edited my other post as you say browwntoa is good on security he must have checked it out but it definately infected my system...

nothing wrong here either.....just tested the link again myself to be 100%

scanned single file with AVG...clean

Poppycat

Yes better safe than sorry. I just didnt get any warnings and I no sometimes these security progams can set off false warnings with a AV.

snagglepuss

Browntoa wrote:

nothing wrong here either.....just tested the link again myself to be 100%

Thanks browntoa, I will look into my security but this has never happened before and even when I tried again the same thing happened cheers Snagglepuss

Edit:- I only posted in LARGE RED because I genuinley believed there was a problem and wanted to warn people but I am not sure why you did the same in your reply? I shall however remove the post if you would like me to but it was nothing personal...

Browntoa

same file from PCadvisor

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/downloads/index.cfm?categoryID=1444&itemID=7914

PCworld

http://pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,7914-order,1-page,1-c,antivirus/description.html

mention of false positives here

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/archive/index.php/t-3403.html

and here

http://forums.speedguide.net/showthread.php?t=26317

quote:-

Steve Gibson's site - Shield's UP! has released a prog that simulates a trojan on your PC to test your firewall, called LeakTest....
http://grc.com/su-leaktest.htm

quote:
LeakTest is a safe and small (less than 30k bytes), completely benign "chameleon utility" which can be used to simulate the presence and effect of Trojan horses, viruses, and adware/spyware running in your computer. It simply and quickly tells you whether it has been able to slip out past your firewall's outbound Trojan/Virus/Spyware protections and establish a standard TCP connection with our NanoProbe server.

It can be had here: http://grc.com/files/leaktest.exe


seems that under certain conditions there may be a false positive of a trojan....but its a symtom of how the software tests your firewall

snagglepuss

I made a genuine mistake and I offered to remove my post I also have been polite so what is your problem ? OMG have I hurt your feelings or something? for goodness sake even if you had made a mistake it would not have been the end of the world.It is no wonder people are afraid to post on these boards.....!

Browntoa

I did'nt like the assupmtion that iI would post a link to a site that caused an infection...I'll re edit my posts but i don't think i over reacted

maybe a better reply would have been to ask if there was a problem rather than post in big letters that the infection was my fault

snagglepuss

Browntoa wrote:

I did'nt like the assupmtion that iI would post a link to a site that caused an infection...I'll re edit my posts but i don't think i over reacted

maybe a better reply would have been to ask if there was a problem rather than post in big letters that the infection was my fault

As I said I was only trying to help and perhaps I acted too quickly but if I had been right then it would have been justified however I do see your point and hope you see mine too Browntoa. I shall remove the post regards Jo