On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Spin wrote:
By the way, I ran the GRC 'Shields Up' (grc.com), and it shows all ports closed except ftp, telnet and http (this is both from the Mac and from the VPC). Any idea why this is, and if (and how) they can be turned off?
You'll probably find it's scanning your NAT router, seeing that's the live IP grc.com will be seeing, not your Mac (which is being NATed) or your VPC (which is being NATed twice. The virtual switch creates a virtual network which it NATs onto your Mac's IP address, which in turn is being NATed by your router).
You might want to secure your router if it's exposing FTP, Telnet and HTTP servers to the Internet. :)
PD -- Paul Day Web: http://www.bur.st/~paul/
