From: "Jon" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (HELO mail.2rosenthals.com) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTP id 1868781 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:14:24 -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 1N31nY-0001TR-KG for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:14:23 -0400 Received: from pop1.greatbasin.net ([207.228.42.15]:51737) by mail2.2rosenthals.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N31nP-0003yx-1A for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:14:11 -0400 Received: from DP6550.seadog.reno.nv.us (seadog.reno.nv.us [216.82.144.188]) (authenticated bits=0) by pop1.greatbasin.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n9S6E8kS016819 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:14:09 -0700 Received: from tyan@seadog.reno.nv.us (TYAN [192.168.1.35]) by DP6550.seadog.reno.nv.us (Weasel v1.78) for ; 27 Oct 2009 23:14:09 -0800 X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A020206.4AE7E133.0186,ss=1,fgs=0 Message-ID: <100.f0190a0030e1e74a.062@seadog.reno.nv.us> To: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:14:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Priority: Normal User-Agent: PMMail/3.05 (os/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; i386; ver 3.05.44.1423) X-Mailer: PMMail 3.05.44.1423 for OS/2 Warp 4.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] eCS Firewall X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: _SUMMARY_ On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:49:54 -0700 Bob wrote: > >I do not know anything about PMMail so I can not comment here. Where is= an >OS/2 version that can be downloaded=3F http://pmmdev.os2voice.org/index.php=3Ftitle=3DMain=5FPage It's also on Hobbes. Both locations have a .wpi and require libc063. It's $25 to get a registration code, which is obtained by joining voice. = I don't know how long the program will run w/o registration but the info should be at the above lin= k. There is also a list you can join. I've been using PMMail for more than 10 yrs and once Voice bought the rig= hts to it they started updating it, there have been many improvements in the last year or so. I= n addition to the releases they also have updated builds via ftp. >I ran grc.com and passed except for ping which responded. I will have t= o check >the firewall on my Verizon router to see if I can disable ping responses= . Some web sites want to be able to have you respond to some icmp packets, = I've had problems in the past by blocking icmp entirely. That particular one you mention is icmp-= 8 (echo request) I believe. >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. Thanks for the confirmation. That is the way I see it but I am always wo= ndering if I am overlooking something. I have checked to confirm there is no plain langu= age going out when I'm signing on with https. I suppose there might be a possibility to capture= something between the computer and the wireless AP. But I guess https is similiar to a tunnel.= Jon