Re: Port 80

From: Wolfgang Kueter (wolfgang@shconnect.de)
Date: 02/09/02 

From: Wolfgang Kueter <wolfgang@shconnect.de>
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 18:25:23 +0100

Charlie C wrote:

> win XP
> Sygate Firewall 5.0 air tight
>
> If I close port 80 then I cannot browse.
> Symantec and PC Flank both show my port 80 open everything else is
> stealth.

They show that because you are ruuning a web Server. Look at the task
manager. Look at the dokumentation of you system usually accessible via
the <F1> key.

> In fact every port is closed or stealth except 80.

ACK, my scan shows the same.

> This is driving me crazy! It looks like its impossible to close port
> 80 without losing the browser.

Too bad for you, but what a perfect reason to uninstall this personal
firewall shit which you even recommended to others since this exmaple
shows shows that I from remote (I'm located in Germany) with some
knowledge found out more about your system than you yourself with all
those fancy windows luser tools.

> Do you get a port 80 open?

Yes, because you are running IIs 5.0.

Having said that I'd kindly like to ask you to stop recommending Sygate
or other Personal firewall software to others since it has shown that
you simply have no control over your system and don't even know the
basics let alone something about firewalling.

Wolfgang 

-- 
A foreign body and a foreign mind,
never welcome in the land of the blind.
Peter Gabriel, Not one of us, 1980

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