KERIO Is it posible to stealth OS and browser [Archive]

zorrozorrito

March 29th, 2004, 02:52 AM

Hi, I am using KERIO firewall 4, and I went to www.scan.sygate.com to prove me firewall, every thing was stealth, except my OS (xp) and my firewall (IE 6). So I want to know if it is possible to stealth them too.
Another question is that it detected lookback , can you explain this please? I use dialup connection and an internet tweaker:TWEAKDUN, to accelerate muy downloading.
Thanks for your answers.

CrazyM

March 29th, 2004, 03:48 AM

Hi zorrozorrito

-{ Quote: " quoting: zorrozorrito link=board=23;threadid=26096;start=0#msg151495 date=1080546744]Hi, I am using KERIO firewall 4, and I went to www.scan.sygate.com to prove me firewall, every thing was stealth, except my OS (xp) and my firewall (IE 6). So I want to know if it is possible to stealth them too." }-

Your browser providing this information to visited web sites is normal and not the same as blocking/stealthing ports with your firewall. From a privacy perspective some user like to block this information, but it can affect functionality when browsing some sites. Some firewalls, including Kerio v4 (paid version), have web content filtering options which allow the user to block some or all of this information. Not having used the latest version of Kerio, I am not familiar with it's web content filtering.

-{ Quote: "Another question is that it detected lookback , can you explain this please? I use dialup connection and an internet tweaker:TWEAKDUN, to accelerate muy downloading." }-

The online scan detected loopback?

Loopback or localhost communication is something that occurs on your system, basically your system talking to itself. This is also normal and generally nothing to be concerned about.

People who use third party proxies (ie. Proxomitron) for filtering web content need to be aware of localhost traffic as appliations configured to access the Internet via the proxy may not be seen as doing so by some firewalls.

Regards,

CrazyM