Maureen; It would be a good idea to block those ports even though they are fairly safe as is. Head into your Mandrake Control Center and find the Security section, where you can setup your firewall. That should allow you to block off the ports that you don't want open.
Lanman *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 2/8/2004 at 5:07 AM Maureen wrote: >I went to this site to check if my machine was secure, >http://scan.sygate.com/probe.html > >It is only used as a workstation, no networks or anything fancy. I'm >using Mandrake 9.2. Everything was either blocked or unable to be >detected except for the following. > >IDENT 113 CLOSED >NetBIOS 139 CLOSED >Server Message Block 445 CLOSED > >What do I need to do to block these, or are they OK as is. Still >learning how to secure my machine so your help would be greatly >appreciated. TIA, Maureen > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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