Testing your firewall security
31-07-2007, 10:47
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Testing your firewall security
Don't know if this has been posted before but the following link performs an online security port scan of your firewall and you can configure which ports you want it to scan.
https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2
There's also tons of useful utilitys on there too !
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31-07-2007, 11:05
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Re: Testing your firewall security
Gibsons' site no doubt has been posted before but some of the stuff on it needs taking with a pinch of salt lol
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31-07-2007, 11:08
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Re: Testing your firewall security
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Originally Posted by Paul
Gibsons' site no doubt has been posted before but some of the stuff on it needs taking with a pinch of salt lol
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Agreed, but he has got a couple of tricks up his sleeve
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31-07-2007, 11:19
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Re: Testing your firewall security
no offence, but I think I'll be rerfraining from clicking any links whatsoever for a little while!
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31-07-2007, 11:27
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Re: Testing your firewall security
The link is the the "Shields Up" site that tests your firewall. Don't worry it's safe to click. It's also a HTTPS site so it's actually secured.
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31-07-2007, 11:27
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Re: Testing your firewall security
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no offence, but I think I'll be rerfraining from clicking any links whatsoever for a little while!
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Understandable, but completely secure website
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31-07-2007, 11:53
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Re: Testing your firewall security
Intresting, I have no router and only have the xp sp2 standard firewall and running all those test says i am 100% secure!?
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31-07-2007, 13:13
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Re: Testing your firewall security
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Intresting, I have no router and only have the xp sp2 standard firewall and running all those test says i am 100% secure!?
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Why so surprised? The Windows firewall is pretty reasonable for free - where it mainly falls down is its (in)ability to prevent malware from connecting outbound. IIRC pretty much everything inbound is blocked by default.
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31-07-2007, 13:16
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Re: Testing your firewall security
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Originally Posted by Aragorn
Why so surprised? The Windows firewall is pretty reasonable for free - where it mainly falls down is its (in)ability to prevent malware from connecting outbound. IIRC pretty much everything inbound is blocked by default.
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Also available on the GRC site is something called leaktest ?IIRC which checks to see if your firewall monitors such connections
EDIT: here it is http://www.grc.com/lt/leaktest.htm
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31-07-2007, 13:19
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Re: Testing your firewall security
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Originally Posted by monkey2468
Intresting, I have no router and only have the xp sp2 standard firewall and running all those test says i am 100% secure!?
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Run leaktest from above link you will fail that
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Originally Posted by Aragorn
Why so surprised? The Windows firewall is pretty reasonable for free - where it mainly falls down is its (in)ability to prevent malware from connecting outbound. IIRC pretty much everything inbound is blocked by default.
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Vistas firewall has outbound protection but its off by default .I use a simple app called vista forewall control that turns it on ond uses it .Ive had no probs at all with this app for a month or 2
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31-07-2007, 13:22
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Re: Testing your firewall security
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Originally Posted by Paul
Gibsons' site no doubt has been posted before but some of the stuff on it needs taking with a pinch of salt lol
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Indeed! Used to visit his site quite a lot and then realised that most of the time he was full of scaremongering.
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31-07-2007, 15:29
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Re: Testing your firewall security
The last time I checked, the site reckoned my PC was invisible on the Internet - unsurprising, as I've been using a router for a while. NAT is a very handy thing for security. And that was a Linksys router which didn't have its own firewall. I now have a wireless US Robotics router, which does have a firewall, so unless I get careless - using IE, for example - I should have nothing to worry about. To the best of my knowledge, there's no way past a hardware firewall short of physical access...in which case the would-be hacker will have bigger problems than hacking my computer, as I''ll be busy hacking into him!
Hands off our forum, you filthy scrotes!!!
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31-07-2007, 15:43
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Re: Testing your firewall security
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Originally Posted by Anonymouse
To the best of my knowledge, there's no way past a hardware firewall short of physical access.
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Not quite true - there should be no direct way to get through a router firewall, but it is quite possible for you to unwittingly download a trojan that opens up a tunnel back to the would be hacker That is where a 'decent' software firewall helps.
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31-07-2007, 15:53
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Re: Testing your firewall security
It says one of my ports is visible but closed And it said this
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Solicited TCP Packets: RECEIVED (FAILED)  As detailed in the port report below, one or more of your system's ports actively responded to our deliberate attempts to establish a connection. It is generally possible to increase your system's security by hiding it from the probes of potentially hostile hackers. Please see the details presented by the specific port links below, as well as the various resources on this site, and in our extremely helpful and active user community.
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31-07-2007, 15:58
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Re: Testing your firewall security
better than being open lol
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