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Old 31-07-2007, 14:16   #9
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Re: Testing your firewall security

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Originally Posted by Aragorn View Post
Why so surprised? The Windows firewall is pretty reasonable for free - where it mainly falls down is its (in)ability to prevent malware from connecting outbound. IIRC pretty much everything inbound is blocked by default.

Also available on the GRC site is something called leaktest ?IIRC which checks to see if your firewall monitors such connections

EDIT: here it is http://www.grc.com/lt/leaktest.htm
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