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Capacity
31-10-2004, 01:25 PM
I install my firewall and in the first 5 minutes there's like "127 intrusions have been blocked, 60 have been high-rated". There was a time when it was rare for me to get any. What is the cause of this darn besmirchment?
Kiezo
31-10-2004, 01:38 PM
The 'cause is you being a nub, leaving ports open everywhere and downloading .exe's all the 14 year old girls on your MSN list send you in their shitty chain emails ;<
Capacity
31-10-2004, 01:41 PM
Nope. Can't be it.
Monserrat
31-10-2004, 01:50 PM
A lot of them are "false positives" in an attempt to justify the firewall's role further.
jake0
31-10-2004, 01:57 PM
Originally posted by Kiezo
The 'cause is you being a nub, leaving ports open everywhere and downloading .exe's all the 14 year old girls on your MSN list send you in their shitty chain emails ;<
Capacity
31-10-2004, 02:05 PM
Originally posted by Capacity
Nope. Can't be it.
Kiezo
31-10-2004, 02:10 PM
No, really. You've probably got so many ports open it's a wonder your RAM isn't physically leaking through them.
jake0
31-10-2004, 02:13 PM
random access mum

ollol
Kiezo
31-10-2004, 02:23 PM
Originally posted by jake0
random access mum

ollol

It didn't seem so random when she accessed my pants last night olllollo
Capacity
31-10-2004, 02:32 PM
How do I know which ports are alright for me to close and then close them?

We all had to learn somewhere..
Makoto
31-10-2004, 07:50 PM
Take a look at your firewalls logs and most of it will be junk traffic but your firewall will stop it any way. When I used to just use a software firewall as my main source of protection, I used to get hundreds and hundreds of "hack attempts" every day. Most is just background noise.

https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

Take a port scan and see if you need to close any open ports that shouldn't be open. Choose "all service ports".
Capacity
31-10-2004, 08:33 PM
None open or closed, all green for stealth. Thanks Felix.