Re: Port function and scanning

NoSpam wrote:


A Symantec scan has recently shown that all my ports are secure,
except the "ping" port, whatever that means.
and you replied:
Yes, that shows exactly what to think about this POS.
Now I still do not know what to think and I also do not know what a
POS is.


"pile of shit"

You advised me to use
That's why I recommended <http://linux-sec.net/Audit/nmap.test.gwif.html>.
This is more or less an interactive web service for Nmap, even though
it's a little bit outdated.
This service however requires me to install nmap,


No, it doesn't. Why do you think so? This service offer you an online port
scan with Nmap, by your command line (with some filtering) as input and the
full Nmap output as the output.
.

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