Steve Gibson has passed on OptOut to another company so that it can be worked on full-time. I can't remember the company's name though.
Steve's copped a lot of flak recently in response to his strong stand against MS's use of raw sockets in an unprotected consumer OS (WinXP). After looking at a lot of stuff from both sides, I think he's absolutely right. For more info, take a look at www.grc.com. ShieldsUp is quite a basic portscanner. It doesn't scan that many ports, and it is targeted at Windows users (as is the rest of his site). That doesn't mean it isn't worth using, though. Sdesign.com had an _excellent_ portscanning service, but unfortunately they discontinued it a few months ago. Other services can be found at: http://www.hackerwhacker.com/ http://www.whitehats.com/ http://crypto.yashy.com http://scan.sygatetech.com/ http://www.dslreports.com/scan http://www.dslreports.com/security/sec025.htm http://www.lfd.niedersachsen.de/service/service_selbstt.html On Sat, 20 Oct 2001 13:49:17 -0400, "Jose M. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Gibson is the guy who wrote the incredible hard drive testing > program, SPINRITE. > > All done in assembly too. > > It's too bad he stopped writing OptOut. > > -JMS > > > |-----Original Message----- > |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Lee Roberts > |Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 1:01 PM > |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > |Subject: Re: [newbie] Firewall Testing > | > | > |-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > |Hash: SHA1 > | > |I use grc.com for a quick check of my firewall. It has been > |accurate so far. Before I installed my firewall on 8.1, > |grc.com reported that some ports were closed and some were > |stealth. After installing the firewall, all ports showed > |stealth. I trust grc.com implicitly and the guy who runs the > |site, Steve Gibson, appears to be trustworthy. He's been > |interviewed on Silicon Spin and a few other shows. But, keep > |in mind that his site only tests a handful of the ports but > |it's good for a quick check. It's best to test your firewall > |with nmap or to find someone that you trust that has nmap and > |can do a comprehensive test of your firewall. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Yeah, yeah, it's 7PM Christmas Eve over there, and you're in the middle of your Christmas dinner. You might feel that it's unreasonable of me to ask you to test out my latest crazy idea. How selfish of you. Get back there in front of the computer NOW. Christmas can wait. Linus "the Grinch" Torvalds
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