Re: Confused newbie

From: Cap (cap@sand-n-sea.us)
Date: 02/14/03 

From: cap@sand-n-sea.us (Cap)
Date: 14 Feb 2003 04:08:00 -0800

Your Linksys provdes pretty good protection, and better in conjuction
with a good firewall for ports that need to be open to listen, which a
few will be with your browser and such open.

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frustration. See below.

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blu <blumagic66@netscape.net> wrote in message news:<3E4C7E4C.9000004@netscape.net>...
> Hi All,
>
> New to home networking and security and would like to
> understand what I think is occurring on my machines.
> I have set-up a home network with windows 98,xp and linux
> machines. I have a linksys router set up also to share my
> broadband connection. The grc.com site says that my machines
> are protected and my ports dont exist and are in stealth mode.
> When I use the netstat command, "netstat -an" I see numerous ports
> listening and some have established connections to ip's/ports. The
> grc site is connecting to my linksys, so it cant see my computers.
> I dont understand how and why these ports are listening and establishing
> connections without zone alarm catching them.
>
> How do I determine which ports should be open and which are unnecessary?
> How do I close ports in windows xp?
> Can I configure zone alarm/blackice to stop connections or close these
> open ports?
>
> I thank everyone for any and all tips and hints to solutions
> to these issues.
>
> blu.....

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