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I did this test today twice. Once in the morning after i noticed my firewall disappeared from the face of the screen & I practically failed. My computer was out in the open for the taking. I checked my system & I noticed my whole security system is there. I did system restore to no avail. So I uninstalled my security suite & reinstalled it. after the updates I went to do this test again. I did well except for this Net Bios port that is supposedly open & needs to be closed.
I would very much close this damn thing before I pull the rest of the hair I still have left over from this morning's failing grade
Tarun,
I started experiencing this problem after I did the fixes from the HJT. I did another HJT scan, printed the log to make sure, & I couldn't see my trend Micro program anywhere w/ the programs files.
I am not complaining, I am just relating the set of events that perhaps led to the firewall being ineffective.
Any help is appreciated.
thank you.
here is the report of my testSolicited TCP Packets: RECEIVED (FAILED) — As detailed in the port report below, one or more of your system's ports actively responded to our deliberate attempts to establish a connection. It is generally possible to increase your system's security by hiding it from the probes of potentially hostile hackers. Please see the details presented by the specific port links below, as well as the various resources on this site, and in our extremely helpful and active user community.
Unsolicited Packets: PASSED — No Internet packets of any sort were received from your system as a side-effect of our attempts to elicit some response from any of the ports listed above. Some questionable personal security systems expose their users by attempting to "counter-probe the prober", thus revealing themselves. But your system remained wisely silent. (Except for the fact that not all of its ports are completely stealthed as shown below.)
Ping Echo: PASSED — Your system ignored and refused to reply to repeated Pings (ICMP Echo Requests) from our server.
139
Net
BIOS
OPEN! As you probably know by now, the NetBIOS File Sharing port is one of the largest security holes for networked Windows machines. The payoff to Malicious hackers from finding open Windows shares is so big that many scanners have been written just to find open ports like this one. Closing this port is not difficult and it should be a priority for you!GRC Port Authority Report created on UTC: 2005-05-06 at 01:42:42
Results from scan of ports: 0, 21-23, 25, 79, 80, 110, 113,
119, 135, 139, 143, 389, 443, 445,
1002, 1024-1030, 1720, 5000
1 Ports Open
0 Ports Closed
25 Ports Stealth
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26 Ports Tested
NO PORTS were found to be CLOSED.
The port found to be OPEN was: 139
Other than what is listed above, all ports are STEALTH.
TruStealth: FAILED - NOT all tested ports were STEALTH,
- NO unsolicited packets were received,
- NO Ping reply (ICMP Echo) was received
Sorry for the lenght of the thread.
