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Hi,
Over the last few days I have been beefing up my security and I have learned
how to close my ports properly.
I have also upgraded to Zone Alarm Pro, (well I am still using the
evaluation period ).
So now according to www.grc.com, (thanks Paul Lynch), all my ports are
closed and it appears that everything is ok.
My local internet project is also running fine, (inetinfo.exe has ZA access
to the internet), so it all seems like my little website/PC is closed to the
outside world.
But then while using phpMyAdmin, (a MySQL db administration tool written in
php ), I got a crash in inetinfo.exe.
Cleverly enough inetinfo.exe restarted itself right away and all seemed ok.
But to my horror Zone alarm was now allowing connections to all the ports
used by IIS.
Somehow inetinfo.exe had changed something that now allows access to the
ports, (80, 135 etc...)... I made no change to ZA.
I can reproduce the problem quite easily so I know it is inetinfo.exe.
Does anybody know what the problem might be? And how it can be resolved?
Should I set ZA to block outside access to inetinfo.exe, (my current
setting).
Sims
Hi,
Over the last few days I have been beefing up my security and I have learned
how to close my ports properly.
I have also upgraded to Zone Alarm Pro, (well I am still using the
evaluation period ).
So now according to www.grc.com, (thanks Paul Lynch), all my ports are
closed and it appears that everything is ok.
My local internet project is also running fine, (inetinfo.exe has ZA access
to the internet), so it all seems like my little website/PC is closed to the
outside world.
But then while using phpMyAdmin, (a MySQL db administration tool written in
php ), I got a crash in inetinfo.exe.
Cleverly enough inetinfo.exe restarted itself right away and all seemed ok.
But to my horror Zone alarm was now allowing connections to all the ports
used by IIS.
Somehow inetinfo.exe had changed something that now allows access to the
ports, (80, 135 etc...)... I made no change to ZA.
I can reproduce the problem quite easily so I know it is inetinfo.exe.
Does anybody know what the problem might be? And how it can be resolved?
Should I set ZA to block outside access to inetinfo.exe, (my current
setting).
Sims