disabled firewall (Comodo), still "true stealth" on GRC?

Since installing the Comodo firewall I have always gotten a "true stealth" rating on grc.com's shields up test. When I had free Zone Alarm I never got a "true stealth" rating.

So I was curious about just closing my browser, disabling my firewall, waiting 30 minutes or so , opening my browser back up and going to the grc.com site and then seeing what kind of score I would get. Guess what? A perfect, "true stealth" rating with no firewall whatsoever.

 

When you close comodo its most probably only the gui closing. Comodo will still be protecting you in the background.

 

When you disabled Comodo did you verify that?
Task Manager will show cpf.exe as a process if Comodo is running.

 

I checked task manager (actually Process Explorer) and Comodo was not running.

 

I got the pop up warning that Comodo would not be protecting me when I disabled it.

 

Check under services.exe if cmdagent is still running

 

May be a router is connected between your PC and internet ?

 

I just checked under services.exe and cmdagent is still running so that must be the reason even though I disabled the firewall. So does the firewall run nomatter what?

 

no router, I called and checked to make sure.

 

Hello,

Are you connected through a proxy? Another gateway? Check the ip address before the GRC scan and compare to your computer's ip:
/sbin/ifconfig .... joking ... type ipconfig.

Do you use NAT / ICS - gifted people achieve through stealth using these.

Mrk

 

If your running Windows XP SP2 Windows Firewall will always give a true stealth test, also at pcflank too The simplest of firewalls give a true stealth on these sites, its nothing to shout about,and I wouldnt worry too much about it anyways.

 

That's not accurate.
The simplest of firewalls does not neccessarily give "Tru Stealth" at Shields Up.
As far as I'm concerned,PCFlank's firewall test is junk.
Maybe it's just me,but I think passing or failing a firewall port scan is most definitely something to be concerned with.

 

I think it would depend on the results of such a scan. If a scan, as from GRC, gives a result of showing "closed ports", this to me is of no concern, as the ports are closed and no possible external access. If the results where to show "open ports", then yes, I would certainly look into this.

 

No concern with closed ports?I can understand that.
That would be way better than having open ports in a port scan test.
I prefer "stealth" or no response.

 

If you have updated your computer with all the latest updates, you WILL! always recieve true stealth at grc.com even with Windows Firewall, if you dont, then your computer is as leaky as a bucket full of monkeys

 

You can use local port scanner to scan for open ports, it is much more reliable, because you will know for sure, that you are scanning your PC. Try SuperScan, just type hostname & scan. If you will get all ports closed, it means, that they are closed or stealthed, so it is ok anyway.

 

Superscan is picked up as riskware by dr web ,fortinet,and antivir

 

As far as being current on patches and the Windows Firewall passing tests....
I don't doubt that.My problem with the Windows Firewall is that it is not bi-directional.When that becomes bi-directional I may take a look at it out of curiosity.

 

the Vista firewall is bi-directional but u have to enable the outbound protection (disabled by default).

 

It looks like Microsoft has decided to not turn on outbound protection in Vista because they feel that it will be "too noisy" for the average user. So it ends up being similar to the current XP SP2 firewall if you don't change the settings.

http://www.techweb.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=187000304