come again mate!
Oh, ok, man nmap.....hehehehehe

Stealthing under many situations can actually give back _more_ information than just having the port closed, especially on server systems. Stealthing is just another farce from the Steve Gibson camp....

& change the name from Admin.

Harden IE and run on a limited account.
Assuming XP,Boot into safe mode to remove it.

No, your experience with sygate was terrible,not sygate itself.
I wasn't questioning your opinion, I am however questioning the WHOIS feature in ZA.

Configuring SYGATE is real simple, hit...

Pls Don't be a SYHATER.
Maybe, you downloaded a corrupt version off Kazaa.
How is sygate a pain?
"Track the sucker down"...............not quite that WHOIS feature is little more than a marketing...

The insecure.org port(for NT), quite frankly sucks bad. I was very disappointed when I first tried it, until I discovered the eEye program.

Use eEye's nMapNT found at:

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Did you do a port scan from a remote location, using nmap?
Or are you listening to the gibson camp.
http://www.grc.com/
PS: kazaa will preform a portscan aswell.
Do a whois on the IP...

Yeah thats only noise scriptkiddies,worms,portscans,viruses,blah,blah,blah.
If you dont want to keep getting all that noise in your logs. Get a router with (NAT)
it will drop allthose packets.
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Ok,I did not have much time at my work to reply to this fully.
Your points have some truth to them Tallcool1, however, the specific reference I made is to privilege escalation, not buffer overflows...

It's still not a service.

Yes, your missing alot, I can provide reading material to both you and FARANTH if you'd like.


What are you talking about, did you google this response? IE is a normal program which executes at...

Looking through alot of the troubles in most IE forums, a vast majority are using adminastrative accounts abviously. Less computer savey people (97% of the members)will not understand the benefits of...

Yeah really!
People always ask me why I never patch my personal windows systems, well here is a fine example of seven worthless patches that I won't be applying. People it's not that hard to read a...