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March 4th, 2002, 12:55 AM
#1
Banned
unauthorized port access
Thank you for taking the time to review and respond to this post,
Okay on occasion I have notice unathorized port access on a couple of my ports. Instead of pulling my power cord to my cable modem, is there anything else I could do.
Thanks Again,
Bearbizket
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March 4th, 2002, 01:07 AM
#2
You will need to grab yourself a personal firewall and take the time to understand how Firewalls work. As a misconfigured firewall is no better than having no firewall.
Go to www.webattack.com and download a freebie.
Sygate and Tiny are pretty good ones.
SoggyBottom.
[glowpurple]There were so many fewer questions when the stars where still just the holes to heaven - JJ[/glowpurple] [gloworange]I sure could use a vacation from this bull$hit, three ringed circus side show of freaks. - Tool. [/gloworange]
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March 4th, 2002, 01:10 AM
#3
Junior Member
better yet go to astalavista and get a program called outpost its the best IDS /firewall you can get.
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March 4th, 2002, 01:21 AM
#4
Just curious. Which ports are you talking about, and how do you know it was unauthorized access? Did you get a firewall alert? Are you running a firewall now?
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
(Romans 6:23, WEB)
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March 4th, 2002, 01:32 AM
#5
I hate to be pedantic, but it is probably best not to confuse the newbies between FWs and an IDS. They are 2 totally different things.
SoggyBottom.
[glowpurple]There were so many fewer questions when the stars where still just the holes to heaven - JJ[/glowpurple] [gloworange]I sure could use a vacation from this bull$hit, three ringed circus side show of freaks. - Tool. [/gloworange]
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March 4th, 2002, 02:20 AM
#6
I agree with ya Soggy, let's just let him do what he should and read up a bit on protection before any details are thrown.
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March 4th, 2002, 02:41 AM
#7
It's called Agnitum Outpost and it's available at www.agnitum.com/products/outpost/
If you really think it's a threat you can also purchace a hardware based firewall for your cable.
Remote_Access_
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March 4th, 2002, 02:41 AM
#8
Banned
thanks for replying... it is appreciated. And not to turn this into a flame session, I am a noob. I have black ice registered version. I do a lot netstats because i am paranoid. So of the foreign i addresses have nothing to do with what i am doing. I have also been getting alot of ICMP Storms . And just came across a ICMP flood. But if I do happen a crossed a unathorized user what can i do.
Thanks for the replies and info,
Bearbizket
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March 4th, 2002, 03:14 AM
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You have to keep in mind that a firewall doesnt CLOSE ports on your machine, it simply blocks them from incoming/outgoing traffic. Simply block incoming ICMP packets on your firewall and you need not worry anymore.
But as I said, installing a firewall is worthless if you dont know how to configure it properly. In my opinion, read up heavily on TCP/IP, Firewalls and Protocols etc.
SoggyBottom.
[glowpurple]There were so many fewer questions when the stars where still just the holes to heaven - JJ[/glowpurple] [gloworange]I sure could use a vacation from this bull$hit, three ringed circus side show of freaks. - Tool. [/gloworange]
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March 4th, 2002, 03:46 AM
#10
Banned
thank for the info SoggyBottoms. I will look into it?
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