Re: Alternatives to using a Personal Firewall
- From: Kerodo <loopback@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 21:14:22 -0700
In article <12a6ejcd0vmn114@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, anon@xxxxxxxxxxx
says...
So, is there any methodical way to close ports and disable unneeded
services other than try this and that and see what it breaks, and
"Search the net and seek help in relevant forums"? When faced with the
task of doing that for 61 running services and another bunch of
automatic ones which can be started without my explicitly starting them,
I'd just about as soon take my chances with a personal firewall. It has
been adequate so far, Sebastian's constant derision notwithstanding.
What I did some time ago was to use Black Viper's list of services and
go thru that and try to see which ones I could safely disable or set to
Manual. Here is a link to that info:
http://majorgeeks.com/page.php?id=12
His site is no longer, but you can find his work posted on various sites
if you Google for "black viper" etc.
It is somewhat of a time consuming process though, and some trial and
error is still involved. Generally, I tried to follow the above list
and disable ones that didn't appear to be needed by other services etc.
I changed one at a time and rebooted, and then checked my Event Viewer
Logs for problems. If I saw errors in the logs, I then turned that
service back on. Eventually (after quite some time) I was able to
disable quite a lot of unneeded services without creating problems or
generating errors in the logs. Unfortunately, if you disable them all
at once and reboot, then there's no way of telling what's going on and
which one is causing a problem. So it's a step by step process.
There may be other easier and/or more automated ways of doing it, but
this is at least one way. Takes some research, and trial and error, but
you can get there eventually..
Perhaps someone else has a quicker automated way of doing it...
--
Kerodo
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