[Ti] Privacy & [OT] Microsoft to quit web browsers for Mac

[Tarik Bilgin]

On Sunday, June 15, 2003, at 01:06  pm, NaegeleWDC at aol.com wrote:

> Thanks, Tarik, I used the "Shields UP!" tests (see 
> https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 ) with the following results:
>
> 1.  My "Internet port 139 does not appear to exist!";\


yep thats good. On Microsfof platforms computers have this port 139 
open as standard -- a massive loophole that allows me to connect and 
get further info about the computer.
>
> 2.  They were "[u]nable to connect with NetBIOS to [my] computer"; and
>
> 3.  As to the "NanoProbe," the results were all "Stealth!   There is 
> NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER that a port (or even any computer) exists at 
> this IP address!"
>
> Thus -- whatever those totally esoteric tests mean -- it would appear 
> that everything is OK, hopefully.

yep -- did you do the port scan too? thats the more important one for a 
mac...