Test Your Firewall, Shields Up!

[JorgeIvan]

ShieldsUP!

The Internet's quickest, most popular, reliable and trusted, free Internet security checkup and information service. Easily check your system here, and begin learning about using the Internet safely.

My results ...

Your Internet port 139 does not appear to exist!

One or more ports on this system are operating in FULL STEALTH MODE! Standard Internet behavior requires port connection attempts to be answered with a success or refusal response. Therefore, only an attempt to connect to a nonexistent computer results in no response of either kind. But YOUR computer has DELIBERATELY CHOSEN NOT TO RESPOND (that's very cool!) which represents advanced computer and port stealthing capabilities. A machine configured in this fashion is well hardened to Internet NetBIOS attack and intrusion.

Unable to connect with NetBIOS to your computer.

All attempts to get any information from your computer have FAILED. (This is very uncommon for a Windows networking-based PC.) Relative to vulnerabilities from Windows networking, this computer appears to be VERY SECURE since it is NOT exposing ANY of its internal NetBIOS networking protocol over the Internet.

Can you pass this test?

Scroll about hald-way down the page and Click "Test My Shields":

Shields Up. Here

[cyoung1616]

ditto

Cody

[+BeLGaRaTh Subscriber¹]

HeHe that old chestnut ... Steve Gibson has been proved time and time again to be, umm, a stretcher of truths to say the least.

[static_geek]

:ninja: hides from Budman and Mxxcon...................... :ninja:

[+BudMan MVC]

,Aug 6 2003, 18:03] :ninja: hides from Budman and Mxxcon...................... :ninja:

heheheheehheh - thanks [source] That made me laugh. I have nothing against grc and Steve's stuff has been useful to alot of people.

Anything that gets people thinking about what open on their box - and thinks about it, before just plugging it into the public net is a GOOD thing!!!

I think Belg.. got it pretty close - stretcher of truths ;) But from what I remember of stuff I have read on Steve's site - its a good read, and can be very useful to alot of people.

But keep in mind - that becuase you click a button on a website - and it says your netbios port is closed, doesn't mean your SAFE :) And I think Steve tries to point that out quite a few times. One thing for sure - if you fail the tests on grc - YOUR WIDE OPEN!

[Steven]

OMG NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :ninja:

Steve Gibson is :censored sorry kids:

[uniacidz]

LOLOL@Steve Gibson

If you want to see a site that questions Steve Gibsons role and objectives, go to this site;

GRCsucks.com

There are plenty of better testing sites

Sygate Online Scanning

Sygate Scan

Symantec Online Security Scan

Online Scan

Also use this browser check to see if your browser is configured properly

Browser Check

Qualys Browser Check

These will give a better insight and results.

Edited August 7, 2003 by Davey

[Steven]

Steve Gibson is the guy who said we'd all be doomed by Windows XP's RAW Sockets and the End of the Internet Was inevitable because of it..

Well its now almost 2 years later and any one with Windows XP appears to be doing just fine.

Yup. "Security Expert" :sleep:

Also he was the dude who blew up the uPnP Security hole of which Microsoft Patched, his outcry caused many unnessary worries about the uPnP Standard, of which was patched a long time ago and is a great feature for those who use routers.

[memNOC]

ShieldsUP!

The Internet's quickest, most popular, reliable and trusted, free Internet security checkup and information service. Easily check your system here, and begin learning about using the Internet safely.

My results ...

Your Internet port 139 does not appear to exist!

One or more ports on this system are operating in FULL STEALTH MODE! Standard Internet behavior requires port connection attempts to be answered with a success or refusal response. Therefore, only an attempt to connect to a nonexistent computer results in no response of either kind. But YOUR computer has DELIBERATELY CHOSEN NOT TO RESPOND (that's very cool!) which represents advanced computer and port stealthing capabilities. A machine configured in this fashion is well hardened to Internet NetBIOS attack and intrusion.

Unable to connect with NetBIOS to your computer.

All attempts to get any information from your computer have FAILED. (This is very uncommon for a Windows networking-based PC.) Relative to vulnerabilities from Windows networking, this computer appears to be VERY SECURE since it is NOT exposing ANY of its internal NetBIOS networking protocol over the Internet.

Can you pass this test?

Scroll about hald-way down the page and Click "Test My Shields":

Shields Up. Here

uh oh

[newsgeek]

LOLOL@Steve Gibson

If you want to see a site that questions Steve Gibsons role and objectives, go to this site;

GRCsucks.com

There are plenty of better testing sites

Sygate Online Scanning

Sygate Scan

Symantec Online Security Scan

Online Scan

These will give a better insight and results.

Thanks for those sites Davey, I am at the moment performing some security tests on my PC. This does seem to be taking a bit more time then than those tests for GRC. So, that makes me think it is doing more. :)

EDIT: My tests are now complete, and below are my results. :)

Trying to gather information from your web browser...

Operating System = Windows XP

Browser = Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0

Trying to find out your computer name...

Unable to determine your computer name!

Trying to find out what services you are running...

Unable to detect any running services!

[memNOC]

This does seem to be taking a bit more time then than those tests for GRC. So, that makes me think it is doing more. :)

hhmm you must have SETI@Home running right now as well, dont you?

:rolleyes:

[newsgeek]

SETI@Home? I am not sure what you are talking about, please explain, thanks. :)

EDIT: I did some investigation of the meaning of the term of which you used, and i do not appreciate those comments toward me, even as this is just an internet message board, please show some respect and courtesy, thanks. :)

Edited August 7, 2003 by newsgeek

[memNOC]

SETI@Home? I am not sure what you are talking about, please explain, thanks. :)

heheh no i was talking about how you think its doing something cuz it takes longer.. well SETI@Home (the project stands for Search for Extra-Terrestrial Life... but AT HOME :o..........) is a program you run and it just sits on your tray using up CPU cycles and sending some "decrypted" info to the SETI base.. WTF!!!

and the weirdest thing it has a WIDE range of followers, and people who actually think theyre contributing to SOMETHING (let alone finding intelligent extra-terrestrial life...) :rolleyes:

god this sh!t irritates me.. :angry:

nevemind.. carry on with thread as usual.. :D

[newsgeek]

Okay, i thought you meant wrong in posting that, i retract my comments made in a previous post, but, it did irritate me a bit temporarily... :blink:

[uniacidz]

Just so you know people, in my original post, i have edited it to include a helpful lil site that checks your Web Browser security.

Called Qualys Browser Check

Its really helpful and i suggest to try it out to see what vulnerabilities your browser has.

[Hills420]

I have always used the free audits at www.securityspace.com . I think they are good.

[Gary_Player]

LOL I remember reading all that crap...I have a bit more faith in Microsoft than in some paranoid looser-doomster-of-the-internet-apocalyps

:D

Oh, and I'm locked up tight it says :D