From: "Bob" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (HELO mail.2rosenthals.com) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTP id 1868717 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:50:06 -0400 Received: from secmgr-va.2rosenthals.com ([162.83.95.194] helo=mail2.2rosenthals.com) by secmgr-ny.randr with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.43) id 1N30Tw-0000MY-Lt for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:50:05 -0400 Received: from relay00.pair.com ([209.68.5.9]:4580) by mail2.2rosenthals.com with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N30Tt-0003K2-2X for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:49:58 -0400 Received: (qmail 49057 invoked from network); 28 Oct 2009 04:49:54 -0000 Received: from 98.119.173.89 (HELO Saturn.home) (98.119.173.89) by relay00.pair.com with SMTP; 28 Oct 2009 04:49:54 -0000 X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A020202.4AE7CD76.0007,ss=1,fgs=0 X-pair-Authenticated: 98.119.173.89 Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:49:54 -0700 To: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" In-Reply-To: References: Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] Re: eCS Firewall MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: The Polarbar Mailer; version=1.26dev; build=2264 X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: _SUMMARY_ Message-ID: ** Reply to message from "Jon" on Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:51:44 -0700 (PDT) > That is interesting, I had not thought that deeply about it before. I use PMMail so email is not a > problem, I do not know anything about PMMail so I can not comment here. Where is an OS/2 version that can be downloaded? > although I sometimes will use my ISP's provided web mail, again I don't see a problem > there either. No problem there as far as I know. > I suppose I can block the MS sharing & messaging ports and go from there. I can also check GRC.com > next time I'm on the road to see how 'invisible' I am. I don't use either service so there are no programs listening on those ports on my computer. But if you are behind a NAT router those ports will not be forwarded to your computer unless you run a program that reads those ports or you have set up port forwarding on the router to allow them to go through. I ran grc.com and passed except for ping which responded. I will have to check the firewall on my Verizon router to see if I can disable ping responses. > What do you think about connecting via https: to financial sites since all data is encrypted? If the initial web page on ANY web site is not secure and has user id - password fields I never enter my user id and password but just click the sign-on button. The sign-on web page usually is a secure page, if it is secure I will then enter my sign-on data. -- Robert Blair