Re: Firewall Sygate

In article <bxe08d4zi6xc$.1olq3tzh6mg7c.dlg@xxxxxxxxxx>, vivekm1234
@cyberspace.org says...
Are there any decent firewalls for Windows. I use Sygate right now, but
i can't block on incoming SYN which is a royal pain, because my parents
forget to click "NO" and instead click "YES". This is because every time
some idiot tries to connect to a port above 1024 a box pops up. I have
blocked all ports below 1024 (so nothing pops up, i've allowed emule,
bit-torrent) but i can't do that for the higher order ports. If i could
differentiate between TCP flags i would have the perfect firewall in
Sygate!

You've got something weird going on there. Sygate won't prompt for any
incoming TCP unless you have something listening on that/those ports.
It will automatically block unsolicited inbound traffic. So I'd suggest
you look at what's running on that machine and listening on those ports.

One other worrying thing about Sygate; a couple of friends and myself
noticed that Sygate shuts down sometimes at night. It exits completely for
no rhyme or reason (worm?). I've now enabled block all network traffic if
firewall exits and set a password, however i don't beleive anyone can
connect to Sygate from outside?


Again, it sounds more like your machine is compromised.. I'd do some
serious scanning and try to find out what's going on there. Either
that, or wipe it clean and reformat/reinstall, which always takes care
of any problems for sure...

--
Kerodo
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