John Colby
jcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Wed Aug 20 11:43:01 CDT 2003
RE: [dba-Tech] Norton FirewallHaving gone to the page and read some of the responses, it certainly sounds like an uneducated piece started the whole thing. Steve Gibson is a nut. Kinda. but a VERY technically astute nut. Last I read (from his own web page) he does ALL of his programming in assembler. That qualifies as a nut in my book. He was the god of DISK stuff way back in 1991 when I was doing testing for Stacker data compression. The most knowledgeable person around on disks, their problems, how to rescue them, etc. It appears he has moved on to internet related stuff. I very much admire the guy. He may be a nut, but he's a smart nut, who knows of what he speaks. John W. Colby www.colbyconsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Jon Tydda Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 11:15 AM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Norton Firewall ooh, have you read www.theregister.co.uk 's opinion of Steve Gibson? He doesn't come out of it too well! Don't think they think very highly of him at all... Jon -----Original Message----- From: John Bartow [mailto:john at winhaven.net] Sent: 20 August 2003 16:01 To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Norton Firewall Hi Andy, You can add or remove open ports from Norton Firewall (NF). My port 1025 is not open. I checked with ShieldsUp and Leaktest and everything is secure. To check it out, open NF and go to options there should be a list of which ports are open. The way to do this is different in every version so I can't help you beyond that. I've used NF since it first came out and am now using Norton Internet Security 2003, so if that's the version you're using I can try to make it more clear. BTW: Steve Gibson (ShieldsUp author) does recommend you update your NF to version 2.55 or higher. John B. > -----Original Message----- > From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Andy Lacey > Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 1:46 AM > To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' > Subject: [dba-Tech] Norton Firewall > > > A client advises me that when using Norton Firewall port 1025 is left > Open. ShieldsUp confirms that. Does anyone else use Norton's Firewall? > If so do you get the same result? Can anyone explain why, and whether > it's ok? > > Andy Lacey > http://www.minstersystems.co.uk > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com The information in this e-mail is confidential and may also be legally privileged. The contents are intended for recipient only and are subject to the legal notice available on request from : webmaster at alcontrol.co.uk ALcontrol Laboratories is a trading division of ALcontrol UK Limited. Registered Office: Templeborough House, Mill Close, Rotherham, S60 1BZ. Registered in England and Wales No 4057291 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://databaseadvisors.com/pipermail/dba-tech/attachments/20030820/2b043f16/attachment.html>