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My shields up test reported failed with all ports showing stealth because they responded to ping.
Posted by: Steve at March 21, 2009 5:51 PM"My shields up test reported failed with all ports showing stealth because they responded to ping."
Mine did the same thing. I am also having trouble at times connecting to web sites. It will take for ever to load then say that they cant connect to the web site, that darn white page. Then I will click diagnosis error and it says its fine. HELP!
Posted by: Andrea at March 24, 2009 9:12 AMSteve , if they responded to the ping they cannot be stealth, they are just closed. It's a good enough result, nothing to worry.
Posted by: Gigi at March 24, 2009 9:12 AMlEO you wrote "The "failure" is that my router responds to a ping request by saying "this port is closed". You actually can't ping my IP address, but you can determine that my IP address exists"
My router doen not respond and gives a full stealth? How come? And LEO, would you not be safer still if your router did not respond to a ping?
Would I be safer? Technically, yes. But by what I consider to be a tiny, tiny amount. I'm not so horribly unsafe that "failed" is an appropriate reaction.
25-Mar-2009
I am sorry but I have to disagree. I had PC Tools Firewall which I ran in the highest setting possible and it failed. Now I have Comodo Firewall. I installed it with the highest settings they offer and it is in stealth mode on it's highest settings and in safest mode it has. It failed as well. For average user trying to find about the things you say is simply not practical. My opinion? Gibson is a idiot and his Shields Up is garbage!!
Posted by: Pavel at March 24, 2009 6:54 PMPavel,
I use a router and COMODO (not even set at highest) and mine passed.
my test said I have ports 21,22,26,and 80 open how do I close them ,I have kaspersky internet security 8.0.0.357 windows xp sp3
Posted by: daniel adams at March 25, 2009 2:28 AMcorrection port 26 should be 23 typo
Posted by: daniel adams at March 25, 2009 2:29 AMBeth G. I have tried every setting I knew. Comodo has setting that will not allow you access to Internet and so no test. Every other setting failed. Could you please tell me the setting you used to pass? Until then I stand by my original comment.
Posted by: Pavel at March 25, 2009 4:07 AMI have BitDefender Internet Security 2009 and GRC also shows my ports 21, 22, 23 and 80 open. Previously I had AVG and it showed the same thing on GRC. I would really like to know if this is anything I should be concerned about.
Posted by: Cynthia Letellier at March 25, 2009 11:07 PM
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