Re: @Guard for xp

From: chrisclu (bequallace@mailexpire.com)
Date: 04/01/02 

From: "chrisclu" <bequallace@mailexpire.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 04:57:11 GMT

Thanks Crash,
I feel better. It is a LinkSys issue and they are working on it.
chris
""Crash" Dummy" <dvader@deathstar.mil> wrote in message
news:uaejnst281t414@corp.supernews.com...
> >I have been going nuts trying to stealth UDP at PCFlank. Have I just been
> >wasting my time? Is there really no cause for concern?
>
> Stealth is nice. It gives you a warm, fuzzy feeling. But the only thing it
> protects you from is a random, determined attack. Determined attacks
aren't
> random, and random searches are looking for open ports, not closed ones.
If
> your active ports are closed, then even a determined attack will fail to
> penetrate. The best someone can do is annoy you and possibly tie up your
> bandwidth, but unless you've really pissed someone off, why would they
> bother?
>
> BTW, I really pissed someone off about a year and a half ago and was
> subjected to a determined attack. It ran on and off for an entire weekend.
> AtGuard handled it just fine without any stealth. I put up a 4 minute
> segment as a web page, if you want to see what a real attack looks like.
> http://www.gpick.com/sbr/security/attack.htm
>
> I'm obviously a noisy minority. Everybody loves stealth. If there were a
> newer version of AtGuard with stealth capability, I would get it. But
there
> isn't, and I have yet to find a firewall that gives me the ease of use,
> flexibility, and good behavior of AtGuard.
>
> Incidentally, when I ran the PC Flank "stealth" scan, my UDP came up as
> stealthy. I flunked all the TCP formats, but UDP came up as stealth. :-)
> --
> Dave "Crash" Dummy
> Certified Dilettante
> Dave@gpick.com
> http://lists.gpick.com
>
>
> 

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