Hello,
I was wondering how secure the windows Vista firewall is as far as inbound security. I currently have it set to block all incoming connections, however, when doing a port scan on it from inside my network, multiple ports showed as being there, although the PC itself did not show as being active (it does not respond to pings). I tried to telnet to a couple of the ports and didn't get any prompts, just a blank screen that eventually dropped me back to the command line, whereas a bad connection would tell me it can't connect. So I'm wondering why exactly they are showing up, and would someone be capable of connecting to them. I am just trying to get it nice and secure before I go hopping on any public wifi networks, because I know a few of them don't do client isolation. Thanks in advance for any help!
Scott
I was wondering how secure the windows Vista firewall is as far as inbound security. I currently have it set to block all incoming connections, however, when doing a port scan on it from inside my network, multiple ports showed as being there, although the PC itself did not show as being active (it does not respond to pings). I tried to telnet to a couple of the ports and didn't get any prompts, just a blank screen that eventually dropped me back to the command line, whereas a bad connection would tell me it can't connect. So I'm wondering why exactly they are showing up, and would someone be capable of connecting to them. I am just trying to get it nice and secure before I go hopping on any public wifi networks, because I know a few of them don't do client isolation. Thanks in advance for any help!
Scott
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