Wigage Firewall

[Iceman]

I tested my wingate Firewall under Shields UP, and there are a few open ports. Additionally, it fails the leak test for outward bound items from my computer. I guess my question is how good is the firewall at stopping all of the potential threats out there, i.e, all of the worms that are now going around. Thanks.

[MattP]

Hi,

WinGate's firewall usually passes the Sheilds UP test, you can try and explicitly close the open ports. If your computer is sending out packets and you don't want it to you can close ports from the internal network to the internet, this should take care of that problem.

In answer to your question of how good the firewall is, we run it here and we have never had problems with nasties getting in.

Matt

[n0ticer]

Iceman,

wingate firewall can stealth ur system. i've tested it thru grc's shields up service.

u can make ur wingate stealth if u go to Extended Networking> Port Security> select Connections from Internet, and remove any incoming connection for TCP & UDP. and make sure Default action is set to "Deny"

this setting is best if ur not allowing/running any inbound services e.g. web, ftp, etc...

now for the outbound issue, u cud ask d qbik team regarding NetPatrol (havent used it). i think what ur after is something like a "component or process control" w/c will block or prompt any outgoing activity. for that feature u cud check on the free versions of Sygate or Outpost. both r compatible with wingate but DO NOT install both.

note: for trouble-free installation, disable ur anti-virus.

[adrien]

another thing to check is your interfaces settings in WinGate, log into GateKeeper, select options->Advanced options->Network Interfaces.

Make sure the external interface is listed as untrusted and not private.

Adrien