Re: [newbie] Firewall Testing

2001-10-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sat, 20 Oct 2001 14:14:16 -0600, Lee Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 04:22 AM 10/21/2001 +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > >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. > > > > I think yo

Re: [newbie] Firewall Testing

2001-10-20 Thread Lee Roberts
At 04:22 AM 10/21/2001 +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: >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. > I think you're referring to Ad-aware? Anyway, I don't think there's a Linux version. Want to bu

Re: [newbie] Firewall Testing

2001-10-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
rogram, 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, 20

RE: [newbie] Firewall Testing

2001-10-20 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
er 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 c

Re: [newbie] Firewall Testing

2001-10-20 Thread Lee Roberts
-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 gr

Re: [newbie] Firewall Testing

2001-10-20 Thread Matt Greer
On Saturday 20 October 2001 09:31 am, you wrote: > Eh... > > See: https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 > "All attempts to get any information from your computer have FAILED. (This is very uncommon for a Windows networking-based PC.)" Heh heh, I liked that line :) Matt Want to buy your Pack o

Re: [newbie] Firewall Testing

2001-10-20 Thread Florian Struck
http://scan.sygatetech.com another one pretty good i would say . On Saturday 20 October 2001 16:50, you wrote: > On Saturday 20 October 2001 10:04 am, you wrote: > > On Saturday 20 October 2001 2:48 pm, you wrote: > > > OptOut's site is one of the best. > > > > Thanks for that. There is no longe

Re: [newbie] Firewall Testing

2001-10-20 Thread Jon Doe
On Saturday 20 October 2001 10:04 am, you wrote: > On Saturday 20 October 2001 2:48 pm, you wrote: > > OptOut's site is one of the best. > > Thanks for that. There is no longer support for OptOut. > > I am really looking for something that can try and hack me, and give me an > unbiased result, as

RE: [newbie] Firewall Testing

2001-10-20 Thread Franki
st' Subject: RE: [newbie] Firewall Testing Eh... See: https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 -JMS |-Original Message- |From: Mark Annandale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 10:04 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Cc: Mandrake Newbie List |Subject: Re: [newbie] Fire

RE: [newbie] Firewall Testing

2001-10-20 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Eh... See: https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 -JMS |-Original Message- |From: Mark Annandale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 10:04 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Cc: Mandrake Newbie List |Subject: Re: [newbie] Firewall Testing | | |On Saturday 20 October 2001 2

Re: [newbie] Firewall Testing

2001-10-20 Thread Mark Annandale
On Saturday 20 October 2001 2:48 pm, you wrote: > OptOut's site is one of the best. > Thanks for that. There is no longer support for OptOut. I am really looking for something that can try and hack me, and give me an unbiased result, as opposed to a commercial setup who, if they are unsuccessf

RE: [newbie] Firewall Testing

2001-10-20 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
OptOut's site is one of the best. Why do you believe that the ports are not "open". It could well be that your Firewall itself is responding to services on those ports (such as http:80) which triggers these programs to tell you that services are available there. It's up to you to decide if you

RE: [newbie] Firewall Testing

2001-10-20 Thread Franki
have you tried grc.com shields up? he doesn't sell firewalls, so if he tells you you have open ports, then the chances are that you do.. (he is quiet well respected by peers too, except for Microsoft and the makers of BlackICE Defender. :-) rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL