i uninstalled ZoneAlarm Pro and trying out the Outpost Pro 30 day trial. i found ZoneAlarm was a little buggy and it also messed with my icons in the task tray.

so now i'm configuring my settings on Outpost and i cannot figure out how to make my ports stealth. any ideas? everything else seems easy as far as setting rules and all that, definitely easier to setup then Norton.

Outpost Pro automatically runs you in Stealth mode.

My Internet > System Settings

Under Firewall Mode: Stealth should be selected.

according to my settings everything is stealth but when i run firewall wall test the results come back as ports are closed but not stealth.

Which test are you running?

these three here..

PC Flank

http://www.pcflank.com/

Shields Up!-Internet Vulnerabilities Profiling

https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

Seifried Security Scan

http://www.seifried.org/freescan2/

With Attack Detection on:

PC Flank did TCP Port 1 and all returned stealthed.

Shields Up and Seifried were detected as attacks and blocked.

With Attack Detection off:

Same results.

GRC:

GRC Port Authority Report created on UTC: 2006-03-04 at 21:35:15

Results from scan of ports: 0, 21-23, 25, 79, 80, 110, 113,

119, 135, 139, 143, 389, 443, 445,

1002, 1024-1030, 1720, 5000

0 Ports Open

1 Ports Closed

25 Ports Stealth

---------------------

26 Ports Tested

NO PORTS were found to be OPEN.

The port found to be CLOSED was: 113

Other than what is listed above, all ports are STEALTH.

TruStealth: FAILED - NOT all tested ports were STEALTH,

- NO unsolicited packets were received,

- NO Ping reply (ICMP Echo) was received.

Seifried:

Security Score: 5

Summary of scan results

Number of open TCP ports: 0 Number of closed TCP ports: 1

Number of filtered TCP ports: 67 Number of closed UDP ports: 0

Number of open UDP ports: 29

You've got nothing to worry about, MP. :P

cool, thanks. earlier the seifried test was different then the one you provided, but i have changed some settings after that.

i'm still learning Outpost Pro. so far i like it and will porobably buy it after the trial version is over.

i just restarted comp and im getting this when windows boots into my account

ive tryed what it says but still the same.

sorry Jmac but i couldnt read exactly what the message said. can you re post the image folowing directions from this guide?

How to Post a Screen Shot

Did you follow the directions the message provided?

reinstall it?

Yep, make a desktop shortcut to the uninstall file and then edit the shortcut properties to have /u after it. It will read like so:

"C:\Program Files\Agnitum\Outpost Firewall\install.exe" /u

Then, be sure to turn off your anti-virus/anti-malware (or go to safe mode) and reinstall and it should work.

Problem Fixed :P

nice!

what was the final solution?

Yep, make a desktop shortcut to the uninstall file and then edit the shortcut properties to have /u after it.  It will read like so:

"C:\Program Files\Agnitum\Outpost Firewall\install.exe" /u

Then, be sure to turn off your anti-virus/anti-malware (or go to safe mode) and reinstall and it should work.

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