ICMP 8 OPEN

[João Inácio]

Firestarter firewall can also block icmp requests, is in the preferences :)

Cheers,
João Inácio

Warty Warthog wrote:

>http://scan.sygate.com/quickscan.html when I scan my
>Ubuntu box I get the following error:
>Protocol  Type  Status      Additional Information
> ICMP      8     OPEN    An ICMP ping request is
>usually used to test Internet access. However, an
>attacker can use it to determine if your computer is
>available and what OS you are running. This gives him
>valuable information when he is determining what type
>of attack to use against you.
>
>What does it mean? and with or without firestarter
>firewall I get such error. How can I avoid this error?
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