firewall - ports - never attached !!!

Hallo

I know that we have 65000 ports

I read that attaches and intruders are from everywhere
when connected

my Atguard firewall has only 12 (twelve) ports controlled

I used 56kb conecction for 7 years (since 1996)
and now adsl for 4 years (since 2003).
Every day, for about 1 hour .

I never had an attach / intrusion / virus on my machine :
that is Windos 98 SE, IExplorer 5.5 ,
never Javascript or Flash enabled .

How is it possible? Am I the most lucky person on earth?

Re: firewall - ports - never attached !!!

urso wrote:
> I know that we have 65000 ports

You're wrong. A port is not a door or a gate, and not a harbour. It's
just a 16bit maintenance number, which includes that there are 65536
different numbers for ports. Usually, the 0 has special meaning, that
makes 65535 numbers in address space.

> I never had an attach / intrusion / virus on my machine :
> How is it possible? Am I the most lucky person on earth?

You're one of the many people, who don't understand and don't recognize
real attacks.

Yours,
VB.
--
"Es muss darauf geachtet werden, dass das Grundgesetz nicht mit Methoden
geschützt wird, die seinem Ziel und seinem Geist zuwider sind."

Gustav Heinemann, "Freimütige Kritik und demokratischer Rechtsstaat"

Re: firewall - ports - never attached !!!

On 19 Jul 2007 18:53:45 +0200, Volker Birk wrote:

>urso wrote:
>> I know that we have 65000 ports
>
>You're wrong. A port is not a door or a gate, and not a harbour. It's
>just a 16bit maintenance number, which includes that there are 65536
>different numbers for ports. Usually, the 0 has special meaning, that
>makes 65535 numbers in address space.
>
>> I never had an attach / intrusion / virus on my machine :
>> How is it possible? Am I the most lucky person on earth?
>
>You're one of the many people, who don't understand and don't recognize
>real attacks.

What attacks and threats and problems consist of
if in 11 years I had no problem on my PC
and in my life (bank accout never emptied, no menace...)?