Ref: Ivan Hernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>'s
message dated 6 Mar 2002, 15:49 hours.
>Don't block ports! close unknkow programs!
The DANGER with general statements is that many a time they are incorrect inasmuch as
the
all encompassing view does not take into account specific requirements that may be
included within an application of need which does have a subsidiary action that is not
desired and needs to be curtailed in its action.
For this reason, the *close unknown program(mes)* is wrong advice. Run the programme,
yet block its desire to connect to the outside world. Within the Wonderful Windows
World, Tiny Personal Firewall allows the user to do just that. What you could call *a
versatile choice of options* and not a corset!
Rigid know-all opinions are nothing new in this part of the world, and contribute,
amongst others, to why things are as they are. <sigh>
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>Richard Cotterell wrote:
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>>Ref: ASBB11 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>'s
>> message dated 4 Feb 2002, 16:18 hours.
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>>>Sorry for the very basic question.
>>>Using superscan I found this port open on my computer. How can I close
>>>it? I use sygate personal firewall but it looks like I do not have
>>>options to shut down ports, I can only act on protocols.
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Angelo
>>>
>>You seem to be in need of, say, Port Blocker from AnalogX.
>>
>>Take a look at:
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>><http://www.analogx.com/>
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>>and decide if this is the tool you are looking for.
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>>An alternative is to use Tiny Personal Firewall (freeware if personal use) and block
>>specific protocol ports as required.
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>>--
>>Richard H. Cotterell <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>>Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon,
>>and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
>> -Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet and philosopher (1772-1834)
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Richard H. Cotterell <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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