What is wrong with firestarter?

[Derek Broughton]

ghe wrote:

> I just ran all the Shields Up tests on my own site. It's pretty
> Winders-centric, and maybe a cracker can do something nasty to W through
> ping, but AFAIK, it's completely harmless on Linux.
> 
> A working ping *does* reveal that you exist, and there are an awful lot
> of ports that Shields Up doesn't probe,

iirc there's a quick checker, but it _can_ scan all 64K.
-- 
derek