these firewalls are driving me crazy!!!

helen_rules · 08-17-2006, 07:27 PM

well, originally, i bought zonealarm pro version, so i downloaded the trial and it told me that i needed to uninstall the free version, and unaware of the bug this causes, I uninstalled and restarted the computer. since then i have never been able to re-install any zonelabs products at all. getting error messages constantly. but thats not the issue anymore :P ok well i tried GeSWall firewall, but all i got was crazy error messages, as though they were trying to find every single little thing wrong with that program, so i reinstalled, same problem. then i moved to agnitum outpost firewall, when i first downloaded it, it came with error messages and whatnot, then i reinstalled and everything was ok :) i just did a scan on 'shields up' website, to check if the firewall was working correctly. every port is 'stealth' except one called 'telnet' i would really love to know if this port is important, or if its not and there is a safe way of shutting it down without causing harm to my system. thankyou in advance, and sorry for the long text :P

sincerely, helen

SpySentinel · 08-22-2006, 11:44 AM

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08-17-2006, 07:27 PM	#1 (permalink)
helen_rules Registered User Join Date: May 2006 Location: Australia Posts: 63 OS: Windows Xp Media Centre Edition	these firewalls are driving me crazy!!! well, originally, i bought zonealarm pro version, so i downloaded the trial and it told me that i needed to uninstall the free version, and unaware of the bug this causes, I uninstalled and restarted the computer. since then i have never been able to re-install any zonelabs products at all. getting error messages constantly. but thats not the issue anymore :P ok well i tried GeSWall firewall, but all i got was crazy error messages, as though they were trying to find every single little thing wrong with that program, so i reinstalled, same problem. then i moved to agnitum outpost firewall, when i first downloaded it, it came with error messages and whatnot, then i reinstalled and everything was ok :) i just did a scan on 'shields up' website, to check if the firewall was working correctly. every port is 'stealth' except one called 'telnet' i would really love to know if this port is important, or if its not and there is a safe way of shutting it down without causing harm to my system. thankyou in advance, and sorry for the long text :P sincerely, helen

08-22-2006, 11:44 AM	#2 (permalink)
SpySentinel Registered User Join Date: May 2006 Location: The United States Posts: 378 OS: Windows XP SP2	Please follow the instructions here and post a HJT log here so one of our security analyst can clean your system.