RE: Port Scanners

  • From: "Kenny Mann" <Kennymann@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 12:17:01 -0600

I've emailed them and received a reply from Richard Davis 
[rickd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
I ended up emailing the marketing section of their website and asking for the 
IT Tech or Ssytem Administrator.
Hopefully this should be resolved. :-D

Kenny Mann

>-----Original Message-----
>From: William Robertson [mailto:robertson.william@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
>Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 11:51 AM
>To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List]
>Subject: [isalist] RE: Port Scanners
>
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>http://www.ISAserver.org
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>Well, while everybody's being so polite by not mentioning the 
>troublesome address, I think it should be named so that the 
>intended recipient can have it attended to...
>
><gramophone voice>
>Would the owner of CHESTER-SA@xxxxxxxxxxxx please contact 
>security, it would appear you have left your filth detector 
>out in the rain and now it's jamming up all the traffic 
></gramophone voice>
>
>Cheers
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jim Harrison [mailto:jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
>Sent: 30 October 2003 17:49 PM
>To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List]
>Subject: [isalist] RE: Port Scanners
>
>http://www.ISAserver.org
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>I've been receiving those lately, too.
>While I can't make the same profanity-clean verbiage claim, I 
>don't recall ever having said a m+th#r f*****g cussword in this alias.
>;-)
>
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>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Amy Babinchak" <Amy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 06:26
>Subject: [isalist] RE: Port Scanners
>
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>Someone's politeness scanner, from this list, sent me an 
>automated message accusing me of violating their profanity 
>rule! I'm going to forward that on to my friends. I'm known 
>for never having uttered a profane word. They are going to get 
>a hoot of out this. It must have been the phrase "good money" 
>that got me in trouble. :)
>
>Amy
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Amy Babinchak
>Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 9:14 AM
>To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List]
>Subject: [isalist] RE: Port Scanners
>
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>Jim,
>
>Why change when you're making good money at it?
>
>Amy
>
>
>
>Hi William,
>
>That was not meant to be an attack on you, just Steve.
>The man wouldn't know a clue if it hit him in the head with a 
>lead pipe in the kitchen.
>
>;-)
>
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>On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 07:13:23 +0200
> "William Robertson" <robertson.william@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
>http://www.ISAserver.org
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>Aye Jim, thanks for your input. I am aware that there is a 
>strong opinion out there that Steve Gibson's articles/apps are 
>a bit dodgy (being naïve I couldn't say this for myself), but 
>knowing this, it is the reading of these articles that helps 
>me to expand my (limited) knowledge. Granted, I need to know 
>that they are invalid first, so that I can find out later what 
>makes them invalid.
>
>As always, thanks for your feedback.
>
>Cheers
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jim Harrison [mailto:jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: 29 October 2003 16:14 PM
>To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List]
>Subject: [isalist] RE: Port Scanners
>
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><soapbox>
>GRC.com?
>Sorry William, but I wouldn't trust Steve Gibson to shave in 
>the morning. He's the one with primary responsibility for 
>"stealth" and "open a port" in the public mind. His tools are 
>crap.  "LeakTest, for instance raises a BRF (big red flag) if 
>you allow FTP through the firewall.  Unfortunately, most folks 
>DO allow FTP outbound.  his "theories" are crap (remember the 
>"raw IP in Windows" panic he raised a couple of years ago?) 
>and his web site is little more than a panic-driving 
>web-tabloid. </soapbox>
>
>Also, bear in mind that online scanning, no matter how well 
>written, is only as accurate as the traffic policies in the 
>devices between you and the scanning app.  For instance, an 
>ICMP unreachable response to the scanner's request may flag as 
>"ok", but not if it came from an intermediate device. I'll bet 
>may of the public scanning sites don't even validate this 
>small, but important point.
>
>My fav's:
>
>- online - www.qualys.com.  They are fast, accurate and don't 
>use "pop networking" terminology or recent events to create a 
>demand for their serviceor products.
>
>- offline - scanline from www.foundstone.com.  You place it on 
>a host just outside your ISA and let 'er rip.  You compare the 
>scanline eport with your ISA logs and YOU KNOW the state of 
>your firewall policies. 
>http://www.foundstone.com/index.htm?subnav=resources/navigation
>.htm&subconte
>nt=/resources/proddesc/scanline.htm
>
>  Jim Harrison
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>
>On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 07:59:31 +0200
> "William Robertson" <robertson.william@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
>http://www.ISAserver.org
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>ShieldsUP (My favourite) - https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2
>
>Outbound - http://www.hackbusters.net/ob.html
>
>LeakTest (More for personal firewalls, but interesting 
>nonetheless) - http://grc.com/lt/leaktest.htm
>
>
>
>Internet Storm Center (Just general interest regarding ports 
>being used in the WWW) - http://isc.incidents.org/
>
>FireHole (Just for Interest's sake) - http://keir.net/firehole.html
>
>BackStealth (Also more for outbound communication) - 
>http://edu.supereva.it/piorio/backstealth.htm?p
>
>
>
>FoundStone (If you're concerned about ports etc, then it's 
>always good to know what these guys are doing) - 
>http://www.foundstone.com/
>
>
>
>Cheers
>
>William R.
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Johnson, Richard (NY Int) [mailto:rjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: 28 October 2003 19:06 PM
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>Subject: [isalist] Port Scanners
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>Can anyone recommend some port scanning sites that will tell 
>me every single port open on a server?
>
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>Rich
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