No, but I would agree that a machine should never connect to the internet without a personal firewall enabled, unless the connection is through your corporate firewall.
________________________________ From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 9:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vipre - how is this possible? Well, that makes me feel a little better. However...now to the problem of this guy not using a firewall/router. Would you agree that a machine should NEVER have a public address assigned? ________________________________ From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 10:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Vipre - how is this possible? I don't think that it was routed on your network, just reported by Vipre. Probably what happened was that Vipre saw the agent on there, and reported it before the machine got a DHCP address. Vipre acts pretty fast on machines booting up on the network in my observation. We have non laptop machines that connect via VPN have Vipre Home Edition on them, so they never actually show up in my Vipre console. If it's a laptop, it has Vipre Enterprise on it. On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 9:28 AM, David Mazzaccaro <[email protected]> wrote: Not a DMZ address... my VPN addresses are all 172.16.x.x and always show up in Vipre w/ those addresses. I wonder if this guy connected directly to some outside internet connection (no firewall, router) and got a public IP (which this is), then brought his laptop in to the office and somehow vipre used that IP? I have no idea how it could have gotten routed on my internet work though?!?! Or maybe it didn't get routed, just reported??? My biggest worry is that somehow it DID connect to the Vipre server... that would be bad. ________________________________ From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 10:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Vipre - how is this possible? At some point it was on your wire and got assimilated by Vipre. Because it's status is inactive it's not being managed by Vipre. I see this all the time especially with laptops. Is this a DMZ ip address? Does this machine have multiple nics with different ip addresses? On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 8:59 AM, David Mazzaccaro <[email protected]> wrote: Hi all, I am very confused/concerned as to how a computer w/ an external IP address got listed in my Vipre v3 console... Any ideas? Picture (Device Independent Bitmap)<http://no%20attachname/> I do not have "update from the internet" checked for the policy that this computer belongs to, nor do I have Vipre ports open on my firewall: Picture (Device Independent Bitmap)<http://no%20attachname-1/> . -- Sherry Abercrombie "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke . -- Sherry Abercrombie "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
