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Originally Posted by Seansmit17 |
I missed your reference to the the shields up tests earlier. Thank you very much. I now feel extraordinarily secure when it comes to inbound.
The really good news is that if nothing can get in, then one should not have an outbound problem--so I'll probably stop being so concerned with finding a firewall that will deal effectively with outbound and will continue to work with the Vista firewall with advanced security to shore up its outbound capabilities.
Here are my excellent Linksys WRT54GS (with firewall)/Vista firewall with advanced firewall results. As with crabby, I am very impressed with my inbound protection combo--and the Vista firewall's contribution, if any (?), to these results.
Attempting connection to your computer. . .
Shields UP! is now attempting to contact the Hidden Internet Server within your PC. It is likely that no one has told you that your own personal computer may now be functioning as an Internet Server with neither your knowledge nor your permission. And that it may be serving up all or many of your personal files for reading, writing, modification and even deletion by anyone, anywhere, on the Internet!
Your Internet port 139 does not appear to exist! One or more ports on this system are operating in FULL STEALTH MODE! Standard Internet behavior requires port connection attempts to be answered with a success or refusal response. Therefore, only an attempt to connect to a nonexistent computer results in no response of either kind. But YOUR computer has DELIBERATELY CHOSEN NOT TO RESPOND (that's very cool!) which represents advanced computer and port stealthing capabilities. A machine configured in this fashion is well hardened to Internet NetBIOS attack and intrusion.
Unable to connect with NetBIOS to your computer. All attempts to get any information from your computer have FAILED. (This is very uncommon for a Windows networking-based PC.) Relative to vulnerabilities from Windows networking, this computer appears to be VERY SECURE since it is NOT exposing ANY of its internal NetBIOS networking protocol over the Internet. Checking the Most Common and
Troublesome Internet Ports
This Internet Common Ports Probe attempts to establish standard TCP Internet connections with a collection of standard, well-known, and often vulnerable or troublesome Internet ports on YOUR computer. Since this is being done from our server, successful connections demonstrate which of your ports are "open" or visible and soliciting connections from passing Internet port scanners.
Your computer at IP:
xx.xxx.xx.xxx
Is being profiled. Please stand by. . .
Total elapsed testing time: 4.991 seconds
Your system has achieved a perfect "TruStealth" rating. Not a single packet — solicited or otherwise — was received from your system as a result of our security probing tests. Your system ignored and refused to reply to repeated Pings (ICMP Echo Requests). From the standpoint of the passing probes of any hacker, this machine does not exist on the Internet. Some questionable personal security systems expose their users by attempting to "counter-probe the prober", thus revealing themselves. But your system wisely remained silent in every way. Very nice.
Determine the status of your
system's first 1056 ports
This Internet service ports "grid scan" determines the status — Open, Closed, or Stealth — of your system's first 1056 TCP ports.
A scan of a stealthed system is up to four times slower since many more probes must be sent to guarantee against Internet packet loss.
Your computer at IP:
xx.xxx.xx.xxx
Is being carefully examined:
Total elapsed testing time: 68.080 seconds
Your system has achieved a perfect "TruStealth" rating. Not a single packet — solicited or otherwise — was received from your system as a result of our security probing tests. Your system ignored and refused to reply to repeated Pings (ICMP Echo Requests). From the standpoint of the passing probes of any hacker, this machine does not exist on the Internet. Some questionable personal security systems expose their users by attempting to "counter-probe the prober", thus revealing themselves. But your system wisely remained silent in every way. Very nice.