hallo all. This is my first post to this mailing list .so if i make any mistake please guide me.
i am using bsnl dataone to connect to internet and my computer is on 24x7 downloading.so i am concerned about securing my machine.i am curious as to how to firewall my machine the best way .usually i connect to net using the modem as router. i have inbuilt ethernet card and i have forwarded only one port which i use for bittorrent .A scan at grc.com gives me complete stealth status but an intense scan with nmap-frontend shows port 23,21,111 and few other ports open and it also correctly detects the os which is running the dlink router.Recently i read that it is easy to hack these low-cost routers and the hacker can steal my username and password.Though i have disabled web acccess control and ssh access to my router is it still possible to hack a simple router especially dlink ones ? note that when i took dataone one year ago i was computer novish and did not know about antivirus, linux etc so i was hacked and bombarded with a huge bill. i have also learned about the rp-pppoe package in fedora (currently i am using fedora 8 : fully up-to-date) which lets us dial out like that in winows xp dialer.but then i am left with only iptables.so i modified it by system-config-firewall,stopped service rpcbind from starting up and modified /etc/sysctl.conf to deny any ping from outside.now both grc and nmap reports all first 1714 ports stealth (grc.com) and closed (nmap).so it seems like the firewall protection is strengthened. I want to know if i have done the right thing and what other measures i should take to prevent my machine from becoming a zombie ? _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dgplug.org/listinfo.cgi/users-dgplug.org
