Great Personal FireWall named TermiNet

[Kosh Naranek]

This little proggy comes from www.dsenet.com and you can get it as a 30 day demo version to begin with.
I have a flatrate cablemodem and i didn't have the faintest idea about the many different ip's constantly contacting my modem.One of them was a Motorola surfboard startup diagnostic page ???? which accessed my cable modem every time the computer boots ????? I didn't know that and it doesn't say so in any of the surfboard manuals.
That was just one example of weird ip's talking to my cable modem without me knowing about it ... luckily none of the ip's monitored so far are malicious in any way.
Hmmm a block window with IP 199.172.144.36 keeps popping up ... guess what it's from MatchLogic Test server never heard about it...........

[The PIT]

It's more amazing when you look at the number of ports available. Try working out which ones you need just for internet access ftp and downloading/uploading emails.
http://happywhacker.com/portlists.html is good place to start testing your firewall. It doesn't test them all mind you you have to pay for that.

[xortam]

My firewall is so good it couldn't even find the happywhacker DNS entry.

[Guru]

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by xortam:
My firewall is so good it couldn't even find the happywhacker DNS entry.</font>

Same here must be that ZoneAlarm Pro bug everyone is talking about!



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According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless..

[Kosh Naranek]

This HappyWhacker thing doesn't seem to exist ..... ZoneLabs has a similar thing going on where you can test your firewall ....

[Bohrn]

Here's a good place to test out your security. Do the tests as they come up. With ZA on max, all is as good as it gets. On medium it is still very good.

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[Guru]

Another site where you can test your firewall is www.grc.com

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According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless..

[The PIT]

Quite right it has gone. But the name happywhacker sounds like a porno site so they probably moved or gave up altogether.

[xortam]

I'll second that Guru. I've always used ShieldsUp and, not unexpectedly, my corporate firewall blocks all attacks (and games too ).