----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerald Waugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 12:28 PM Subject: RE: [cobalt-security] PortSentry 2.0b1 Beta released
> On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Graeme Fowler wrote: > > > > Well, a cursory glance at the ChangeLog for this version shows that the most > > important change of all is that the "Classic", or binding, mode has been > > removed. That should get rid (I say should... but!) of all the "Help! I > > scanned my system and I've got X Y and Z trojans on my system" messages we > > see here on a reasonably regular basis. > I use to use portsentry but have given up on it. For one thing it keeps > a bunch of ports open that I don't use anyway, so it's kind of like entrapment > you catch people trying to access ports on the machine that are not in use > anyway. > With that complaint you are probably running it in classic mode which will no longer exist (as stated above), it was fairly well documented on how to get it to not "listen" on unused ports but most people give up when it doesn't do what they want/expect (no offence intended). ChrisB. -- http://ChrisBurton.info/ _______________________________________________ cobalt-security mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-security
