On Tuesday 28 November 2000 11:22 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I realise that there are more secure firewalls available but Guarddog
> is so easy to set up for a newbie,with it's point and click panels
> it's straightforward to select/de-select options and go back in to
> change if you get it wrong, and requires little (if any)
> understanding of ipchains.
That's my point tho, would you rather have a fancy GUI for a
firewall setup that leaves ports open, or use a text based app like
PMfirewall that sets up ipchains to give better protection?
> BTW thanks for the heads-up re: the better check than ShieldsUp -
> I've been there and it finds things that ShieldsUp couldn't
> like port 23 is open and allows telnet
> port 80 is open and allows http
> port 8080 is open for http-proxy
> none of which I understand because as far as I knew none of these
> sevices were enabled - guess I've got some digging to do !
> Poogle
Do the complete scan and get the emailed report. The basic scan
reports 1025 open on my system, but the complete scan reports 1025 as
open/filtered, ie, not a problem. 'Course I have the BEST protection
from script kiddies, a lousy 28,8 dialup ;>
--
Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
>
> On Monday 27 November 2000 22:34, you wrote:
> > On Monday 27 November 2000 12:53 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > For a newbie, I like Guarddog firewall, free and downloadable
> > > it's available for MD 7.0. 7.1 & 7.2
> > > http://www.simonzone.com/software/guarddog/
> >
> > It doesn't close/filter ports as well as PMfirewall does.
> > Looks nice, but it's less effective ipchains config.
> >
> > http://www.pointman.org/PMFirewall/
> >
> > and here's a better check than ShieldsUp!
> >
> > http://www.sdesign.com/cgi-bin/fwtest.cgi?APPLY=Scan+Me+Now
