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Posted by fred-bloggs on 12/21/05 09:45
gregfarr <gregfarr@comcast.net> wrote in
news:ddrgq11t9gdn95n0tk4i79v69c9peq82lp@4ax.com:
> I've been trying to get to know my Sygate firewall, and
> noticed it has a record of whoever tried to get access. Can some of
> those be innocent, like spam or are all bad news.
Do you want to allow others to access your PC? Presumably only those
running WinMX? The rest may be unintentional or they may be malicious,
but as you don't want any of them I suggest you treat them all as bad
news.
> 2). It seems it has
> the ability to trace the sorce, at least to a point, is there any
> advantage in looking into any of this further? Can they be blocked for
> the future?
If you have a persistent pest, you could trace back and make an abuse
report to the relevant ISP. Sam Spade is useful for this.
http://samspade.org/t/refer?i=on
Sygate has been bought out by Symantec (Norton) and Sygate firewall has
been discontinued. Kerio has also been bought out but their free personal
firewall will continue to be available.
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/Kerio.cfm
A better security solution than a personal firewall is a NAT router which
is not expensive.
Most would-be intruders are looking to exploit vulnerabilities in Windows
so it is really important to stay up to date with Microsoft's security
patches.
--
fred
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