Re: Newbie with Norton Personal Firewall - Help Please

From: Michael (mgordon2_at_BeamMeUpScottie.earthlink.net)
Date: 07/31/04 

Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 15:25:53 -0500

Maidstone wrote:

>I'm such a newbie with this and if anyone could help or direct me, I
>would be ever so grateful.
>
>I've installed the Norton Personal Firewall 2004 version. It seems to
>be enabled and blocking some intrusions. But when I checked my
>"statistics" it says:
>
>Personal Firewall:
>You were last attacked on: July 31,2004 8:27am
>Recent Intrusion attempts: 3
>Most frequent attacker: and gives the isp number.
>
>Last night I had checked and I was attacked like 20 times.
>
>What my question is is am I being "attacked" in the way that they are
>stealing info from me. And if so how do I enable my Norton Firewall
>to
>STOP THIS.
>
>I mean I have the damn thing on, I'm "blocking" popup windows saying
>someone is trying to get to my computer. What else do I need to do?
>
>Please, help. Symantec.com's "tech support" is crap.
>
>
That is precisely why I dumped Norton's and installed ZoneAlarm. So far
Norton's has lost 5 of my customers because they would not support me.

>Thank you sooooo much for any input.
>xoxo,
>Maidstone
>
>
Now to answer your question, you seem to be well protected, Norton
stopped 20 attacks, that is good. You need to look at the firewall log
to see what was trying to enter your PC, that will tell if it was just a
ping on your connection, or an active hacker.

The best way to find out how well you have Norton configured is to go
back to their web site and allow them to scan your communications
ports. There are two important reports to look at and they are in the
advance reports; all ports blocked, and Stealth Ports. Just because a
port is blocked does not mean a hacker will not try to enter, he will
bang away trying to find an entrance, but a Stealth Port makes the port
inviable to the hackers, if he doesn't know it exists he can't try to
get in.

Michael

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