Re: XP Personal Firewall

From: Jonathan Bloomquist (bocasolutions@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Aug 16 2002 - 08:54:49 EDT


--- Jeremy Junginger <jjunginger@interactcommerce.com>
wrote:
> I've come across a few XP hosts that are trying to
> be sneaky with the
> "Internet Firewall" feature enabled. I've seen
> responses from NMAP SYN
> and ACK scanning while seeing next to nothing on
> Nessus. Also, I am
> unable to uncover any additional information about
> the hosts and
> available services. Do you have any tips on beating
> the XP "firewall?"
> Perhaps there is a post in the archives.
>
> -Jeremy

I don't have access to an XP personal firewall to try
it, but you might try specifying a source port for the
scan using nmap's -g switch. If the firewall doesn't
keep state, you can probably SYN scan through port 20,
21, 53, etc.

=====
Jonathan Bloomquist, CISSP

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