Re: Level One firewall leaks?

<level13@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1145342166.891115.280850@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com...
> I've noticed lately that my Zone Alarm has been showing entries in
its
> firewall log that shouldn't be there. Namely, it blocks attempts
from
> outside IPs to connect to ports such as 1300, 3155, 1904, 4759,
3618,
> 2997, 3029, 1366, 3286, 3357, 4590... With Zone Alarm being just the
> "second line of defense" this seems kind of weird. The first line of
> defense is a (wired) LevelOne router/firewall, and none of the
> aforementioned ports is forwarded to the computer (I even have UPnP
> turned off).
> Can someone explain to me what's wrong here and why these ports are
> coming through? Is it just a lousy firewall within the Level One
router
> (but then again, how come there were no attempts like this before),
or
> maybe some hackers' workarounds, or false routing within my
network...

You can run a test at Shield's Up on your router to see if any ports
are open.
charlie R

>
Received on Mon May 1 01:08:00 2006