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Does Vista firewall have holes?



 
 
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Old October 1st 06, 11:46 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.security
CZ
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Default 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.


DK:

Run netstat -an to see if those ports are open on the computer

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Old October 2nd 06, 06:50 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.security
Some guy in Kirkland
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Default Does Vista firewall have holes?

have you actually tried to telnet to that port from another machine on the
internet?

or possibly running one of hte sysinternals tools to watch the tcpip stack
and the running processes?

i mean, if telnet on 23 is open and you connect to it from another machine
you should get a prompt of some sort.. (or even from 8080)


"Dark Knight" wrote in message
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While I haven't figured out what's causing it I know I'm not the only one
experiencing an issue with being informed Telnet port 23 is open and
insecure. After Googling the issue I've found several referrences to other
Windows Vista RC1 testers that have port 23 and port 8080 being left open
and
insecure. I turned off all exceptions in the Windows Firewall as well run
a
complete virus scan with Avast. Windows Vista RC1 was directly downloaded
from Microsoft's website with a valid key and the workstation hard drive
was
formatted prior to installation so it's a clean installation.

"BillD" wrote:

I've tested the Vista Firewall with your test and all the ports are
stealthed




 




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