[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by the_exile [/i]
[B]Darwin would've had a field day with modern society... [/B][/QUOTE]
Exactly. You should see my firewall's log after I locked everything down except for the 5 ports I use on a regular basis. :D 95% of the scans are on either 135 or 139. Ohh know, the script kiddies are out to get me! :mock horror: Bring it on script kiddies.
Biggles<font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
It's always funny watching script kiddies trying to use windows exploits on my linux firewall system. :D
We've had a right comedy situation here at my university in the UK. I'm part of the School of Medicine so we have our own servers which we run and manage. The network gear is run by Computer Services who manage the whole university network, email/exchange servers, and student workstations. We patched our servers about 2-3 weeks ago so when the virus struck we managed to isolate infected machines and push out the service patches to machines that didn't have it installed. What did out Computer Services lot do? They hadn't patched anything so in the blind panic cut access to the www! I mean wtf?????? Apparently networking down at the main campus is screwed, staff can't access anything on networked drives, no outside web access, no email. The way they did it knackered networking that we need to get to our staff who are not on our site. And they have enrolment going on at the moment!!!!! Major bloody chaos! Anyway its been funny watching my boss and our head fire off emails to the thick heads down on the main site demanding why we weren't told in advance that they were cutting networking and switching stuff off. Of course lots of excuses being offered. Well at least we were ahead of them and had very little problems apart from the small bunch of isolated staff. It really takes the buiscuit when a group in charge of an entire universities computing and networking can't keep up to date with patches from M$.
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Rogue Trader [/i]
[B]I cant figure out how to close off those ports using ZoneAlarm.
Anyone?
Regards,
Rogue Trader [/B][/QUOTE]
Solution: [b]GET A REAL FIREWALL[/b]! :) ZoneAlarm has more holes in it than swiss cheese. Even a 5 year old copy of AtGuard is far more secure than that piece of shit.
[url]www.kerio.com[/url] is your friend. :) (Kerio, formerly Tiny Personal Firewall, is a mother of a firewall. Once you get the rules implimented......ohhh baby. :D)
Biggles<font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
You university's computer services people sound exactly like the ones at my university. Clueless. :D
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Biggles [/i]
[B]You university's computer services people sound exactly like the ones at my university. Clueless. :D [/B][/QUOTE]
Sounds about like the admissions department at mine. I re-applied to get a second degree several days ago and I still can't register for classes.....and they start in a couple weeks! :rolleyes:
Biggles<font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
Oh, that's nothing. The fees people at my university got all confused when I started enrolling for a CoP to take an extra paper, because my scholarship was paying for my PhD degree and related papers while I was paying for the CoP paper myself. They couldn't handle the different sources and ended up thinking I was an international student.
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Biggles [/i]
[B]A firewall that kills the internet connection? That's a new one. Maybe your ISP pings you and if they don't get a response they disconnect. [/B][/QUOTE]
Or its the other way around. He had the "keep connect alive" function enabled, which many ISPs expressly forbid in their ToS and bump you off for it.
Biggles<font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
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[B]Darwin would've had a field day with modern society... [/B][/QUOTE]
Exactly. You should see my firewall's log after I locked everything down except for the 5 ports I use on a regular basis. :D 95% of the scans are on either 135 or 139. Ohh know, the script kiddies are out to get me! :mock horror: Bring it on script kiddies.
Anyone?
Regards,
Rogue Trader
Oh well home to my virus free mac in a bit! :p
[B]I cant figure out how to close off those ports using ZoneAlarm.
Anyone?
Regards,
Rogue Trader [/B][/QUOTE]
Solution: [b]GET A REAL FIREWALL[/b]! :) ZoneAlarm has more holes in it than swiss cheese. Even a 5 year old copy of AtGuard is far more secure than that piece of shit.
[url]www.kerio.com[/url] is your friend. :) (Kerio, formerly Tiny Personal Firewall, is a mother of a firewall. Once you get the rules implimented......ohhh baby. :D)
[B]You university's computer services people sound exactly like the ones at my university. Clueless. :D [/B][/QUOTE]
Sounds about like the admissions department at mine. I re-applied to get a second degree several days ago and I still can't register for classes.....and they start in a couple weeks! :rolleyes:
BTW: McAfee Firewall Does not work worth shit, It will keep your computer from Crashing, But you will loose you ISP Connection After 10 mins
[B]A firewall that kills the internet connection? That's a new one. Maybe your ISP pings you and if they don't get a response they disconnect. [/B][/QUOTE]
Or its the other way around. He had the "keep connect alive" function enabled, which many ISPs expressly forbid in their ToS and bump you off for it.