Re: Security & Ports.

"The One" <theone@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

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.
I then did the same test on the Shields Up website and the results showed
all my ports to be stealth.
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?

Good question.

Secondly if my ports are stealth is it possible for a scanner to see my
machine on the internet?

A scanner, no. It'll look like there's nothing on that IP address to
a scanner. Traces of you will be out there on the net in the logs of
the web servers you visit of course.

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.

Do a third test. broadbandreports.com has a port scanner in their
toolset. see what it says. It would be unusual for a hardware
appliance to blithely allow traffic in like that. I'm inclined to
toss the symantec scan out as erroneous.


--
Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/
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