My PC is a fortress!

Fri Jun 18, 2004 1:54 am by Esquilax

I was just doing a bit of light reading, and I happened to stumble upon a fantastic little site called "GRC". The site features an online utility called "Shields UP!", which will probe your PC and see if it is vulnerable to hackers, etc. I tested my PC, and not one port was open and waiting for an attack. I receieved a "Perfect" rating in each test which surprised me, even though I've secured my PC to my personal specifications *shoots smug look at Taw*. I also passed the NetBIOS test, as I had the foresight to disable it some time ago (which you should all do as well). That being said, the site is here, and I highly recommend that you check it out for curiousity's sake if for no other reason.

What's your security rating, people?

Edited by - esquilax on 6/18/2004 2:57:21 AM

Fri Jun 18, 2004 2:28 am by H.Q. Victor

Its been a while since I used this site. Norton does the same on thier site .

Michael Song of Solomon

Fri Jun 18, 2004 2:45 am by Esquilax

Perhaps so Final, but GRC have actually been around for a long time. I'd actually forgotten about them

.

Taw - Perfect, eh? I'd hope so, considering the industry you're in

. I wonder what Mustie's rating will be? I'd hate to see Wolfy's or AoD's!

Fri Jun 18, 2004 3:55 am by gromit

Amusingly, my work machine has much higher security than I thought possible...including a lovely...

Your Internet port 139 does not appear to exist!
One or more ports on this system are operating in FULL STEALTH MODE! Standard Internet behavior requires port connection attempts to be answered with a success or refusal response. Therefore, only an attempt to connect to a nonexistent computer results in no response of either kind. But YOUR computer has DELIBERATELY CHOSEN NOT TO RESPOND (that's very cool!) which represents advanced computer and port stealthing capabilities. A machine configured in this fashion is well hardened to Internet NetBIOS attack and intrusion.

Unable to connect with NetBIOS to your computer.
All attempts to get any information from your computer have FAILED. (This is very uncommon for a Windows networking-based PC.) Relative to vulnerabilities from Windows networking, this computer appears to be VERY SECURE since it is NOT exposing ANY of its internal NetBIOS networking protocol over the Internet.

but for some reason our SMTP port is wide open. could this be to do with us being an ISP?

Do I care?

Well Do I??

Fri Jun 18, 2004 4:04 am by H.Q. Victor

Esq, you would cring if you had our work computers. These would get sent back to the first grade.

The worst of it is, the big wheels don't care. They set their network up in a way, that norton can't be used as it blocks the other computers from comunicatin with each other. It's a laugh.

Fri Jun 18, 2004 4:32 am by kimk

it said my firewall was penetrated. like i had one at the time. bullguard takes up too much of my bandwidth for some twisted reason, my RAM too. its crazy. more trouble than its worth. besides AVG and norton are doing a good enough job imo.

Fri Jun 18, 2004 5:08 am by Balthazar Furious

A perfect rating, that gives some piece of mind. I guess having the hardware firewall and ZA is paying off.

People have it all wrong these days, instead of discriminating and hating others for being black or ugly, we should practise fairness and hate every living thing equally.

Fri Jun 18, 2004 8:35 am by Aod

I got this:

Preliminary Internet connection refused!
This is extremely favorable for your system's overall Windows File and Printer Sharing security. Most Windows systems, with the Network Neighborhood installed, hold the NetBIOS port 139 wide open to solicit connections from all passing traffic. Either this system has closed this usually-open port, or some equipment or software such as a "firewall" is preventing external connection and has firmly closed the dangerous port 139 to all passersby. (Congratulations!)

Unable to connect with NetBIOS to your computer.
All attempts to get any information from your computer have FAILED. (This is very uncommon for a Windows networking-based PC.) Relative to vulnerabilities from Windows networking, this computer appears to be VERY SECURE since it is NOT exposing ANY of its internal NetBIOS networking protocol over the Internet.

and my only opne port is Http (port 80) and FTP (port 21)

How can i close port 21?

Fri Jun 18, 2004 9:06 am by Chips

Aparently it doesn't even know mine exists...

Fri Jun 18, 2004 3:58 pm by arton alpha

same as you chips it said my system was either a "ghost" or a "fort knox sever"

(it's not a server but i keep it very secure)
edit- all of my ports where in stealth mode (who ever said cloaking was a bad thing

)
Aod, are you on a Lan if you are thats why port 80 is open as far as the other port i can't help you

Edited by - arton alpha on 6/18/2004 5:02:00 PM

Fri Jun 18, 2004 5:58 pm by mustang

Perfect stealth rating but anything is hackable given enough time, knowledge and resources.

Fri Jun 18, 2004 5:58 pm by H.Q. Victor

Just Tested my own. the first test got -

Your system has achieved a perfect "TruStealth" rating. Not a single packet — solicited or otherwise — was received from your system as a result of our security probing tests. Your system ignored and refused to reply to repeated Pings (ICMP Echo Requests). From the standpoint of the passing probes of any hacker, this machine does not exist on the Internet. Some questionable personal security systems expose their users by attempting to "counter-probe the prober", thus revealing themselves. But your system wisely remained silent in every way. Very nice.

Unable to connect with NetBIOS to your computer.
Your Internet port 139 does not appear to exist!

Good old Norton does it again.

Fri Jun 18, 2004 8:15 pm by Esquilax

Grom - Probably. If you are an ISP, perhaps you have an email service running like "Sendmail" or "Exchange" or something. That would explain an open SMTP port. Either that or your PC is a zombie and is sending out spam emails

.

Final - That doesn't suprise me a bit. The computers at my old work *shakes head*. They managed to get infected with both Sasser.A and .B within two days!

AoD - Unless you have "WS FTP" or something running, I'd be a little worried about port 21 being open. As for port 80, it is used when browsing the internet, but it still shouldn't be classified as "open" in the tests.

Mustang - True, but it's bloody hard to hack 56k modem users. We aren't online often enough, and we keep changing IPs

.

EDIT: I'm proud of you kids. I guess that some of you have been listening to the techies around here, and have been protecting Mr. PC

.

Edited by - esquilax on 6/18/2004 9:15:41 PM

Fri Jun 18, 2004 9:20 pm by Leonhart

hmm...are we sure that test is accurate

Your system has achieved a perfect "TruStealth" rating. Not a single packet — solicited or otherwise — was received from your system as a result of our security probing tests. Your system ignored and refused to reply to repeated Pings (ICMP Echo Requests). From the standpoint of the passing probes of any hacker, this machine does not exist on the Internet. Some questionable personal security systems expose their users by attempting to "counter-probe the prober", thus revealing themselves. But your system wisely remained silent in every way. Very nice.

Sat Jun 19, 2004 1:02 am by Chips

Oh yah, also I have a dynamic IP, so any attack best be quick - cause i aint staying at the same addy........

And....i was happy to find out that the firewall changes its behaviours as an attack happens as well - so it counters stuff that happens - which was nice to know. Thanks for the link, its nice to know that your computer is safe and secure....which i didn't know before this

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