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Duane Arnold
Bob said:
That's because you couldn't figure it out if it hit you up side your wooden
head.
Duane
That's because you couldn't figure it out if it hit you up side your wooden
head.
Duane
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Duane Arnold
Duane said:
That's your ass.
It didn't want to confuse you as to where it belongs. ;-)
Duane
J
James Egan
I would guess that would go straight to the top of their "to do" list
and get fixed soon after discovery. Fundamental though, isn't it? How
these things get beyond initial testing is beyond me.
Having said that, your beloved win9x system left the netbios session
service port in a listening state (if the client for ms networks was
still bound) even if file and printer sharing was unbound from tcp/ip.
Although it was listening no-one could connect to the shares so it
wasn't a big deal apart from grc.com making the usual mountain out of
a molehill.
The point being that there's a big difference between a port being
open and someone being able to access your system. Best leave your
firewall on all the same, though. Unless you want to prove you were
right by getting your router hacked
Jim.
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null
Apparently, you didn't read what Rateliff had to say about that. It
seems it took forever. Assuming it's actually fixed, that is.
Buyer beware.
I dunno how you managed to get off on that line of bull. I always
bound adapters to TCP/IP only when I was using 9X/ME. All 64K
ports were closed. Period. Netstat -an result was zilch. Period.
The point being that there's a big difference between a port being
open and someone being able to access your system. Best leave your
firewall on all the same, though. Unless you want to prove you were
right by getting your router hacked
That's definitey not how I would propose to do the testing
Art
http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg
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Duane Arnold
Bob said:
The point wasn't aimed at you and your set-up in the first place.
Yeah I don't have go to a forums on that one.
Yeah OK. If Kerio like the rest of them somehow did that the *cow* jumped
over the Moon and you're right.
Yeah OK you're right about that too.
Hey, I can cooperate with you and you're right. ;-)
Duane
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null
FYI, I just installed rev 3.37.6 and the behaviour is quite different
indeed. With the firewall disabled, all ports, including 80 and 443
test as Blocked or Stealthed at the port scanning sites.
Art
http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg
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Bob
I recommend you pay close attention to the method used to test for
blocked ports. I have read that not all methods are reliable.
The one I use which I know is 100% accurate is TZO's Port Detective.
The reason I know is I discussed the matter with Eric McIntyre at TZO
who developed PD. You have an agent on your machine that phones home
to the TZO server and watches for traffic at the port being inspected.
If you use WallWatcher you can see if the packet even makes it thru
your ISP. That's how I originally discovered that Road Runner was
blocking port 80, among others. Then later I confirmed it with RR.
www.portdetective.com
It's a free service.
--
Map of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
http://home.houston.rr.com/rkba/vrwc.html
"Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverence. Talent
will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education
will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and
determination alone are omnipotent."
--Calvin Coolidge
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Don't believe everything you read.
I'd look for objective opinions by experts who didn't design the thing
myself.
Looks like a nice app. I just ran it and got the same results as the
usual port scanning sites on the internet.
Art
http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg
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James Egan
Doh! I'm not talking about bindings to adaptors. It occurs with a
binding to the Client for MS Networks even if File and Printer sharing
is unbound.
Standalones like yours without a network client or service are
obviously not going to have open netbios ports but, believe it or not,
some people want to share files as well as Internet connections.
Jim.
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kurt wismer
Bob said:
somewhere there's been a communication or logic breakdown...
what closing ports means in OS hardening parlance is actually a process
of stopping programs and/or services from listening on those ports... if
you have a specific program that listens on a particular port and you
want/need it to do so then you leave that specific program alone...
closing ports shouldn't prevent you from letting approved applications
listen on whatever ports they want to...
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kurt wismer
Bob said:
that doesn't mean they won't be instructed to perform the operation by
their isp's tech support... they don't need to know how to do it
themselves so long as a guy being paid minimum wage to read instructions
from a script is there to tell them what to do...
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Bob
Does that include your post?
Thanks for the warning.
--
Map of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
http://home.houston.rr.com/rkba/vrwc.html
"Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverence. Talent
will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education
will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and
determination alone are omnipotent."
--Calvin Coolidge
B
Bob
LOL
--
Map of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
http://home.houston.rr.com/rkba/vrwc.html
"Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverence. Talent
will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education
will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and
determination alone are omnipotent."
--Calvin Coolidge