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Does Vista firewall have holes?
Currently evaluating Windows Vista RC1. Has anyone experienced any issues
with Windows Vista firewall ports being detected as "closed" or "open" but not listed as "secure"? I ran several firewall port tests from various sites (ie: http://www.hackerwatch.org/probe/ ) and all listed the same open ports "Telnet 23" and "Web Proxy 8080". All other ports are listed as "Closed" which should indicate they not only respond to pings but are also visible to the net. None of the ports in the test are listed as "Secure" (ingnore pings and are thus not visible to third parties). Confirmed via "Control Panel/Programs & Features/Turn Windows features On or Off" that "Telnet Client" and "Telnet Server" are not enabled. Also confirmed my LAN settings are set to auto-detect not use proxy port 8080 since I'm not running a web server. So either the ping test is producing false positives or Microsoft's Windows Vista firewall isn't recognizing the holes. |
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