Re: Security & Ports.
- From: Rick Merrill <rick0.merrill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:14:09 -0400
The One wrote:
Today I did an online security test on the Symantec website. The results showed that most of my common ports were either open or closed.
Actually?-!
I then did the same test on the Shields Up website and the results showed all my ports to be stealth.
That means they don't respond with a NAK.
Yesterday while online NAV reported an intrusion attempt on port 1476 by NMap Xmas Scan, the attempted intrusion was blocked.
I have 3 questions.
Firstly why does the symantec site report the ports status to be different to the shields up site?
Secondly if my ports are stealth is it possible for a scanner to see my machine on the internet?
Only if you have some ports open, i.e. you run a server.
Thirdly is it possible that my linksys router firewall ingnored the scanner and it was in fact the symantec software that responed thus making me visable on the internet.
that's possible.
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