Re: Got Active Ports, now what?

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Date: 09/09/02 

Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 08:02:04 -0700

On Sun, 08 Sep 2002 21:21:50 GMT, "Z Craig" <whistle101@hotmail.com>
wrote:
)>
)>> discover there are 23 things running! I'm a total novice and I
)>> don't know what this means. Why do I need 23 connections to the
)>> internet?!
)>

Craig,

What 23 things are you refering too?
Services, or Open Ports, or....
Could you add some additional info to a reply.

Learn a little about TCP/IP, Networking and Firewalls.
There's plenty of good information out there
(none of which comes from Tracker/Pandora/whatever)

I'll suggest a few Forums to you
http://www.wilders.org/forums.htm
http://www.morelerbe.com/cgi-bin/ubb-cgi/ultimatebb.cgi
http://www.dslreports.com/forums
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/keriofirewall/
http://209.100.212.5/cgi-bin/cbmc/forums.cgi

and these sites
http://www.samspade.org/
http://samspade.org/d/firewalls.html
http://www.robertgraham.com/
http://www.robertgraham.com/pubs/

You should get a 'Application' Filtering Firewall for your XP box.
Try Tiny Personal Firewall, Kerio or Look-N-Stop. There are plenty
of them.

Get a Linux Firewall Box setup
(an old 486 with 'Floppy-FW' or 'Freesco' will work fine)
as your Main connection to the Interent
then connect your XP box to your Linux Firewall Box. (it's real easy)
http://inf33-www.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de/research/embedded/linux.html

 
Oh, yeah.
Just ignore or delete anything from Tracker or Pandora, or
whatever it is calling itself now. You don't wanna take any of
it's advise. Pandora has some kind of abnormal wierd fascination
with Hackers.

I hope that helps some..

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