Re: sygate and shields up

"Volker Birk" <bumens@dingens.org> wrote in message
news:43209c9a@news.uni-ulm.de...
> jameshanley39@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
>> When I test my sygate firewall on Gibson's Shields Up. The ports are
>> coming up as closed, but not all are coming up as what GRC calls
>> stealth.
>
> Shields Up is nonsense. http://grcsucks.com/
>
>> Not even giving away my computer's
>> existance.
>
> You're fooled by the nonsense Gibson is writing and your "Personal
> Firewall"
> is telling you.
>
> It is just not possible to make a PC "invisible" or "stealth" in the
> Internet if it's connected.
>

So , if I had a static IP and told you what it is, can you tell whether i'm
online or not?
If I'm stealthed then I'm guessing the answer is no? Otherwise Yes

> Here is your IP address, measured by my server:
>
> http://www.dingens.org/forget-stealthing.cgi
>
>> Is running my home router's firewall along with Sygate, actually makign
>> me less secure than if I was to run Sygate alone ? (since my ports
>> aren't 'stealthed') ?
>
> You don't need Sygate at all. Just use the Windows-Firewall.
>
> Yours,
> VB.
> --
> "Es kann nicht sein, dass die Frustrierten in Rom bestimmen, was in
> deutschen Schlafzimmern passiert".
> Harald Schmidt zum "Weltjugendtag"
Received on Thu Sep 29 20:07:01 2005