Re: Advice pls on what is happening on my system

In comp.security.firewalls Alix <alix@alix.com> wrote:
> I am on a cable connection in the UK with no other PCs or printers
> attached. I use FILSECLAB's personal firewall.
> I downloaded and installed "TreeWalk DNS" a week ago on my XP Pro
> system. As I am in the UK I also installed the "ORSC Slave-Root"
> package. I have to say I am not particularly familiar with the
> technical details of DNS lookups.

Yes.

> OBSERVATIONS
> Today I booted up. Before I manually launched anything I saw the
> following entries shown below in my firewall monitor.

Port 53 are DNS requests. Why are you using such tools, if you don't
understand what they're monitoring?

The Windows-Firewall will be enough to be secure against network worms.

If you want to learn more about networking and the TCP/IP protocol familiy,
Craig Hunt's "TCP/IP" (O'Reilly) and this one could help:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP/IP
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet

Yours,
VB.

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