[REBOL] Re: Network Guru...
From: louisaturk:eudoramail at: 17-Dec-2001 16:50
Marj and Brett,
I took your advice---read the articles and installed zonealert. Nothing
seems to be trying to access the internet from my computer, so I suppose
that is good news. However, zonealert shows that rebol is constantly
running, even when my scripts are not running. Since I must manually relax
security (both read and write) for my script to run, and the security seems
to stay relaxed after my script runs, I am still concerned. Is there some
way the script itself can set security---open the door, do its work, then
shut and lock the door?
Louis
At 11:45 AM 12/17/2001 +1100, you wrote:
>I doubt that your Rebol script is accepting connections only opening a
>connection to your target machine when required.
>So on that basis there would be no ports open due to Rebol. Unless you were
>running a FTP server script or something.
>
>However I think you have bigger concerns than Rebol if your machine is full
>time connected (actually same problem for
>dial up) to the internet. There are constant network port scans occurring
>across the internet.
>
>I suggest you go to http://grc.com and read the "Shields Up" information
>provided there. Also look for the information about
>denial of service.
>
>Brett.
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