gray
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Posted: Dec. 29 2005,19:49 |
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hehe - nope Ol' GRC and me are definitely not the same people - wish I had his salary and was earning a real currency tho' !!
OK, I shut the PC down totally, to remove any possibility of something coming over from XP and then went over to GRC and Sygate and ALL THE PORTS WERE CLOSED.
I also did specific tests for 554 and for 1755 - BOTH WERE CLOSED
These are the comments each made, Sygate first and GRC second:
1. This port has responded to our probes. This means that you are not running any application on this port, but it is still possible for someone to crash your computer through known TCP/IP stack vulnerabilities.
2. Solicited TCP Packets: RECEIVED (FAILED) ? As detailed in the port report below, one or more of your system's ports actively responded to our deliberate attempts to establish a connection. It is generally possible to increase your system's security by hiding it from the probes of potentially hostile hackers. Please see the details presented by the specific port links below, as well as the various resources on this site, and in our extremely helpful and active user community.
Unsolicited Packets: PASSED ? No Internet packets of any sort were received from your system as a side-effect of our attempts to elicit some response from any of the ports listed above. Some questionable personal security systems expose their users by attempting to "counter-probe the prober", thus revealing themselves. But your system remained wisely silent. (Except for the fact that not all of its ports are completely stealthed as shown below.)
Ping Reply: RECEIVED (FAILED) ? Your system REPLIED to our Ping (ICMP Echo) requests, making it visible on the Internet. Most personal firewalls can be configured to block, drop, and ignore such ping requests in order to better hide systems from hackers. This is highly recommended since "Ping" is among the oldest and most common methods used to locate systems prior to further exploitation.
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Now I have to ask: is it possible for a Windows service to affect the ports of another system after a reboot ? I remember seeing someplace that a mere reboot doesn't clear memory, only a total shutdown (which is why I did the shut down before starting this) - of course the ideal is to totally remove XP from this box - wonder if the Devs here can tweak wine to run my Pirates (new version)  . I'll try that tomorrow - am on a dial-up here so it all costs - monopoly telco.
Guys and Gals, thanks for your patience
Gray
PS: still don't know why my friends didn't see ports open in SUSE and XP but just in DSL, and before you reckon he hates the OS, HE was the one that mentioned DSL to me (has it on 3 of his own boxes for figuring how to make a Super PC with nodes etc)
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