Sygate Personal Firewall - Keep using it?

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Re: Sygate Personal Firewall - Keep using it?

> The advisory says "this shouldn't be possible from remote as all gateway
> routers and firewalls should filter traffic that is obviously spoofed".
> I'm behind a router with a built-in firewall and NAT, so I should be
> safe?

:)

>
> Can I fix this or should I just switch to another freeware firewall?

You ignore it because the machine is setting behind a router and those ports
are closed by default to Internet traffic concerning those ports.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=udp+port+137+&btnG=Goog le+Search

You want to know what 138 is used for, then use Google and look it up.

All this you are concerned with only applies if the machine was not setting
behind the router with the machine having a direct connection to the modem,
and therefore, the machine would have a direct connection to the Internet.
It's not the case, because the router is sitting there in front of the
machine.

The whole thing is moot, because the machine is setting behind a router.