Re: FN-FORUM: Any hackers here?

date posted 4th August 2004 17:09

At 17:22 on Wednesday, 04 Aug 2004, Julian Voelcker wrote:

>
> OK, before you start wondering, my mother has just had Tiscali
> broadband installed and I want to be able to check the security
> remotely to check that she has a firewall installed.
>
> Ideally I need some sort of port scanner to scan her IP address to see
> if any of the ports are open.
>
> I have tried to get her to run Shields Up remotely, but I think it was
> all too much for her. Also installing her broadband has killed her
> phone line (2 more weeks to fix) and mobile reception by her computer
> is poor to non existent.
>
> Any pointers would be appreciated.

Loads of utilities here.

http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/network/fwscanner.html

If you have an IP address I'd be happy to run a port scan or two and see
what's listening.

;o)

(not a hacker, just like to bite back sometimes...)