good thing I have a firewall

[GilesGuthrie]

I was reading a thread here recently, and saw mention of a site called www.dslreports.com (it was Ghostrider showing off the speed of his connection).

They also have security tests there, which I found VERY illuminating. It picked up, in spite of Norton Personal Firewall, that I had file & print sharing running on my standalone PC. When I disabled it, the ports closed, and the report said I had a secure system. It's worth checking out...

 

[F2002]

DSL connections are good, cos IP changes all the time

 

[Deathhawk]

Originally posted by F2002
DSL connections are good, cos IP changes all the time

It dosn't matter. Hackers take the first 2 number sections of your ip address (that dictates your provider + location) and scan for the others, it goes through thousands of combinations looking for someone to hack. So it dosn't really matter.

Dialup does the same, but the connection is so short, that most need not worry.

Where is that security audit Giles?

 

[Deathhawk]

Never Mind I found it.

Ok here is the results. They couldn't find ANYTHING!!! I have file, print web/mail and other services running, and they couldn't probe anything!

Guess BlackIce is now officially the best filter I have tested now.

Sweet.

 

[oosacker]

Most hackers are geeky kids

 

[Deathhawk]

Originally posted by oosacker
Most hackers are geeky kids

Which means unless it is a company server, you have no worries about serious attacks, just run of the mill trojans.

 

[oosacker]

..but some are ****s who steal passwords/credit info etc

 

[Dudebusta]

disabled the firewall that comes with XP.

whats more fun than hacking into someones pc??? ill tell you. SCARING THE **** OUT OF THEM!

do a search for 'UDT32'...

you can do all sorts of stuff, open their cd drive, hide their task bar, turn off their pc. all with an ip number...

 

[oosacker]

Originally posted by Dudebusta
disabled the firewall that comes with XP.

whats more fun than hacking into someones pc??? ill tell you. SCARING THE **** OUT OF THEM!

do a search for 'UDT32'...

you can do all sorts of stuff, open their cd drive, hide their task bar, turn off their pc. all with an ip number...

Thhat sounds quite funny...how do you do it? with a server rat?

 

[Deathhawk]

Originally posted by oosacker


Thhat sounds quite funny...how do you do it? with a server rat?

The fact that if you are caught (and they monitor "popular" downloading sites) You are facing jail....

Other than that...

Anyway, back to firewalls.

Well today I decided to upgrade my firewall. Well what happened you ask? Well it screwed up my system BIGTIME! The new and improved firewall came with a "Program Monitoring Software" and that little beast has had my computer screwed up for the past couple days.

At first I thought it was some sort of virus. I couln't open programs, couldn't install anything. Well, as a fluke, I discoverd that this program takes the programs that it finds on install, and adds them to a database, then allows those programs to run, but no other programs then that is in the db. Nothing d/l would work, nothing off cds. I finally discovered it was this fancy program doing all this when by fluke I turned it off and tried installing something again.

This was all fine and good, I just have to turn it off untill I am done installing. WRONG! Upon the first reboot (I was installing something) The computer boots up, and I find myself in a position where I can run NOTHING!! That includes the firewall GUI (the app is running as a service) so being the off switch is in the GUI I can't turn it off. (At least conventionally) So I make a trek to the services folder. At least the Controll Pannel was working! Well I turn off BlackIce, thinking that the program is completely linked. WRONG! I reboot a couple times with the BI in suspended mode (win2k) but still nothing happens. So now fed up, I go on a rampage. I shut services w/o a description down 1 by one untill I find the beastie. (I only had 4 to go through) And finally disabled it for GOOD!


Now you might think this is a horrible program for doing something like this, but It has re-enforced my using it on a server. As I said before this is a server firewall, so this program would only allow services to function. This would be great becuase someone couldn't upload a program and run it on your computer.

Anyway, problem solved and back to GTP.

 

[oosacker]

naah im not a hacker