No Firewall & No attacks ?

Just for the hell of it to see what "might" happen, i shut it down Before i did i enabled ShadowDefender though

Usually i see all sorts of inbound attempts into all manner of ports, that fail to get in So i was Extremely surprised to notice NOTHING coming in ? 25 minutes online so far !

I used CurrPorts & TCPView in tandem to watch in/out.

In fact i'm posting now naked

What am i doing wrong, or am i just lucky, so far ?

 

Did a port scan @ grc



It shows ALL except Port 135 Closed Not sure why, but sounds too good to be true ?

Be interesting if others could try it & compare

 

well for inbound windows firewall will do a very good job with the inbound so you are not completly naked lol

 

Shutting off windows firewall + behind a router = stealth on my PC.

 

Amazingly quiet !

Except WF is Always disabled on here

Sure with a router but i'm only using a modem

 

Why not using windows firewall (incoming only) ?
This still is a fun test I'll try it when I've time

Always wondered how windows firewall with stardard setting will fare against internet

 

Call Sony they know how to make a bad setup and get attacked the hard way

 

@ blasev

No, my XP/SP2 FW is OFF.



See my above screenie for the alert i get when doing the MS check.

 

Yeah they have a hrad time there, do u know what's their mistake?
Using windows firewal perhaps? LOL

@clone ranger : I've edited my post, sry posting using blackberry, sooo slow....
So I didn't see your first explanation

 

@ blasev

OK

I'm using a strawberry

 

Hahaha, I like strawberry better , But it's a "requirment" from my company.

Good luck with the testing

 

Grc Giving me a strange Ip :|

i tried another probing site it also gave diffrent ip




Isp proxy ?

 

do you think there will be a hole just some where?ofcourse without inbound protection at all

 

@CloneRanger
some modem has NAT.

@Ranget
If it's showing a LAN IP... you're probably on a router or a modem that has NAT.

 

Clone Ranger i don t understand what you are trying to do.

Some years ago ,when i did not care about PC security ,i ve used to make some FPS game server .For that purpose i kept no firewall on.
In no more than 10 minutes after the firewall was off ,with the server up and running ,BitDefender AV (no firewall) would pop up about some worms it was removing/qurantine.After one day of such usage the PC would simply fill with worms and trojans ,some detectable some not.

If you are "naked" ,no firewall ,no modem and no router ,beeing directly connected to the ISP ,you re prone to format your system daily.

I wouldn t advice anyone reading this to turn off the firewall ,if there is no modem or router between the PC and ISP.It s suicidal.

 

I understand that you shut down the service that runs WF.
Do you get network activity showing up in Task Manager when browsing the web (with WF shut down) for instance?
if not, this may be because you shut down the service.

Also, are you sure you are not running a modem/router combo?
The router's NAT functionality will act as a firewall and get closed/stealth readings on port probes.

@ blasev: WF is actually a SPI firewall and you will get full stealth reading on GRC with it running (not that stealth is better than closed).

 

Probably nothing, you seem behind a modem or router doing NAT. i.e. with standard NAT you normally get all ports closed except active service(s) at the time of the probe.

Check the IP given by GRC then check your IP (run --> type cmd --> type IPCONFING /ALL in the new window). Different IPs? Then GRC is not probing your PC.

 

CloneRanger, does your modem have a built-in router, or a firewall ?

That's my best guess.

 

First off, Thanks for the replies so far

I'm using a 3G mobile broadband USB modem.

Just spent over 30 minutes online trying to discover if there is "some" kind of FW/NAT stuff inbuilt, but with no success. So i've joined their forum & as soon as i'm approved i'll ask & see what they say.

Still no FW

Shutting down ZA



Connected but not launched FF

Please see above & the CMD screenie below.

To see how long it would take to get infiltrated without a FW & where from & with what etc. But as i said, i'm using ShadowDefender whilst doing this

Refreshed the page & get this

Hoping to get an answer from the 3G forum, when i can post

Thanks, i used IPCONFIG /ALL instead

Please see above

 

Instead if what
yes, and? IP reported by grc and your IP are the same? Or not?

 

Still can't post to that forum ? As it's the weekend, i guess the Admin etc are out playing

IPCONFING /ALL

Yes, sorry maybe my screenies wern't clear enough ?

 

Ah... OK, spelling mistake indeed... lol

Yes, you bleeped the IP in the cmd window and there is no trace of the IP in the GRC screen. So, impossible to deduce from the posted information

What you are experiencing is pretty standard in Huawei modems, basically black boxes not configurable with often open ports for administration and the rest comes closed because not used or not in listening mode. Basically no NAT or may be some minimal filtering, no special firewall.

Do you get stealth status (not just closed) while using the software firewall? Probably not...

 

none of my gaming pc'c (which I re build each year) have had any firewall other than the routers for eight years, I only use eset's for information on this one. Complete waste of resources and 99.9% of attacks are normal network traffic being misread.
For home networks they are an information tool for me, the information is not always correct of course.

 

I said they where from my ISP though = same.

Thanks not found that info anywhere else yet !

Yes, always

For gaming i can see how they might be. But even if i had a router, i'ld still use a software FW, as i've seen quite a number of exploits for them year by year

 

Good to know, it was not the case in the past, so IMO better to keep the software firewall