How safe are you from Pc Hijacking and Viruses

Drapper

Just found a great link for testing your online secuirty !!

http://probe.hackerwatch.org/probe/probe.asp

Checks if your open to attack.

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Shrimp

Thanks for that linky.. handy lil site to have

neokenzo

Another good site is www.grc.com and do a "shields up" test.

Drapper

Sure it only works if you got a good Virus Guard and Firewal installed.

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Drapper

How safe are you from Pc Hijacking and Viruses

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Just found a great link for testing your online secuirty !!

http://probe.hackerwatch.org/probe/probe.asp

Checks if your open to attack.

D

Dempsey

All my ports were secure. Im using windows firewall and AVG

Capt'n Midnight

If a web sites says your ports are secure just means it can't see them, if you ISP blocked them then you might still be wide open to other users of that ISP (very unlikely though)

Safe ports means you probably won't be hijacked within the first 16 minutes (which IIRC is the average time for a unpatched unfirewalled windows machine connected to broadband to get infected) , as long as you don't surf / download / icq / email etc. etc. during that time.

At present IE can be hijacked by a downloaded or emailed bmp image file or if you visit a malicious web site. (no vendor patch as yet)

NotMe

Going by that first test, most of my ports are "closed but unsecure". Is that a problem? How can I make them secure?

Drapper

NotMe wrote:

Going by that first test, most of my ports are "closed but unsecure". Is that a problem? How can I make them secure?

You need to get a better firewall and update your virus guard !!!!

Should be all secure !!!

TacT

safe, secure and locked down as always

Drapper

TacT wrote:

safe, secure and locked down as always

Good stuff

Mac daddy

just check my sig

KeRbDoG

once you use Windies, your never safe from Hijacking and Viruses.

Dempsey

There are holes in linux too except noone is bothered to exploit them

KeRbDoG

and because its open source, people see the holes and can release fixes whenever they are found quickly. Unlike M$ who take their time releasing updates. I use Windies but always know its crappy for security no matter how many ports yea have 'secured'.

Dempsey

If linux had as many people trying to poke holes in it as windows they wouldnt be able to get to them all at once.

Its not crappy for security, people are just going to greater lengths to make holes in it

KeRbDoG

Dempsey wrote:

Its not crappy for security, people are just going to greater lengths to make holes in it

true

galwaydude18

im safe as a nut in its shell according to the test!!!!!!!

Drapper

New site for you all

http://www.pcflank.com/scanner1.htm

http://www.hackerwatch.org/probe/?lips=5209aebe&hwid=1424877b7190db1b

try the probe test ?? paste your results !!!

SpooN_9k

all tests showed im about as secure as il ever be


EDIT: hey Drapper how does the penguin in your sig get those details? :eek:

Drapper

Good stuff !!! then again everyone should be !!!

RicardoSmith

Drapper wrote:

New site for you all

http://www.pcflank.com/scanner1.htm

http://www.hackerwatch.org/probe/?lips=5209aebe&hwid=1424877b7190db1b

try the probe test ?? paste your results !!!

Unable to Probe

The IP address requesting this page is different from the IP address of your computer. This indicates that your computer is behind a proxy or NAT. These devices allow you to access the Internet by relaying traffic, typically from multiple computers, through a single IP address.

We are unable to directly probe your computer, you should take comfort from this. You have that much more protection between your computer and the Internet.

Passed all those tests. Most of them couldn't run or scan.

Woden

a number of ports came up, 2 of these where secure but a number of them where closed but unsecure.

none of these ports though where ones that i opened myself through my router for various games etc.

currently running avg7 and the fantastic firewall that is windows sp2, i presume i just need a better firewall? whats the recommended AVG equivalent of a free firewall, kerio, zonealarm etc.?

cheers

data

Lump

Pfff, using a hardware firewall and a software version, AVG virus scanner.... I think I'm fairly secure

John

Drapper

Dataisgod wrote:

a number of ports came up, 2 of these where secure but a number of them where closed but unsecure.

none of these ports though where ones that i opened myself through my router for various games etc.

currently running avg7 and the fantastic firewall that is windows sp2, i presume i just need a better firewall? whats the recommended AVG equivalent of a free firewall, kerio, zonealarm etc.?

cheers

data

try Zone Alarm and turn off windows SP2 firewall !!!! and try the probes again !!

Better safe then sorry !!!