I've been using Zone Alarm firewall (free edition) for many years now & in all security tests it comes up as all ports in stealth mode, so hackers don't know you're actually connected. The problem is I'm no longer using dial-up & instead have a ADSL Ethernet Modem/Router- Hurricane 9200, it is now showing that ports 21, 23 & 80 are open as well as ping, the rest are showing as closed. I'm sure that beyond the router itself the ports on the computer's own IP are still in stealth mode but hackers now maybe KNOW that there is a computer there somewhere because of the router responses.
How safe is my computer, should I change to a better firewall? Although other firewalls that I tried show the same ports open (which are on the router of course). I'm having some problems recently & I'm thinking possibly I'm being targeted. All settings on the router itself were done by the telephone service operators.
Am I safe, what can I do?
2007-03-04
21:54:37
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cool_as_cebu
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