On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 08:46:47PM -0400, Rob French wrote: [snip] > So, are any network/port-related tools useful? In my personal opinion it is ALWAYS usefull to know what is going on on your system. No mather how little ports are open... You said it was for your laptop, and thats why you should certainly use these tools... A laptop travels with the owner and has the specific feature of being plugged into the internal network most of the time. This is at home as well as on location... Now imagin that in some way a bad guy can slip a troyan in your machine that starts connections with the bad guy from inside the network in which your laptop is plugged. As you plug your machine in various networks, it could mean that the attacker gets access to all of these networks for the time you are plugged in... My guess is as good as yours, but I'd rather wanna be informed when someone tries to slip such a troyan into my machine(s)... However, like everything in life, it is not worth the effort if you're not going to check the logs after all... Just my 2 cents (and yes there are more paranoia people on this globe :) ) Kristof -- Digital fingerprint: F56F F987 0E0C AFF8 0B6D 7CA1 F152 E07D 72AF 337B
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