Re: A good firewall working fine in default?

Volker Birk wrote:
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>> I activated the firewall when I noticed it was off, then went to
>>GRC.com to test it. To my horror it read wide open on the first test,
>>file sharing, was able to connect to that system. That also explained
>>why I was getting all sorts of popups wanting to connect to places like
>>China and other places all over.
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> Better learn how to configurate and how to use a port scanner.

   Thanks for the tip.

>> Spyboy Search&Destroy was the progream which alerted me to the
>>"Security Center" area in the registry and showed what the settings
>>should have been. When I tried to reset them correctly the first time,
>>it didn't work because the trojans still had control. After I got rid of
>>the trojans with NOD32 and Trojanhunter I could reset the registry
>>settings and they didn't change.
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> Please reaD:
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> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/secmgmt/sm0504.mspx

    This certainly doesn't leave any room for doubt. Good link - and
bookmarked for future reference.

>>Once again I tried all the GRC tests and all the ports read secure.
>>No more popups either.
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> Great. No popups. But some trojan horses left, I bet. And another box
> being part of a botnet.

    Certainly hope not.It's on dialup and only used at certain times -
not every day, but a botnet master probably wouldn't care as long as he
has control over the computer. I know they prefer broadband setups.
About a week ago there was a segment on CNN showing one botnet master
could control about 100,000 computers at one time. Amazing.
Received on Mon May 1 00:51:17 2006