Gatelock

[bids]

Just taken delivery of one of these:

http://www.virustrap.co.uk/gatelock.php

Installed it on my network and it works a treat - Anti-virus (including e-mails), NAT, DHCP server, Firewall - all for £125 (ex. VAT). Got my dedicated gateway/firewall machine back too

Well worth a look if you're on broadband.

 

[Embattle]

Yeah read a number of reviews saying they were rather good, might get one in the future.

 

[Embattle]

My router does have built-in NAT firewall security and this topic reminded to check the log:

22 July 2002 21:09:48 Unrecognized access from 193.38.113.34:48951 to TCP port 6588
22 July 2002 21:09:48 Unrecognized access from 193.38.113.34:48952 to TCP port 1080
22 July 2002 21:09:48 Unrecognized access from 193.38.113.34:49011 to TCP port 25
22 July 2002 21:09:48 Unrecognized access from 193.38.113.34:49012 to TCP port 119

^These appear a couple of times every day so I wondered what the orgin IP was and it is:

scanner.abuse.blueyonder.co.uk

 

[Will]

Looking for SMTP (25), NNTP (119), SOCKS (1080) and...nope, not a clue what 6588 is.

Scanning for stuff you shouldn't have, after spam blacklisting and the Usenet death penalty was almost implented.

 

[Embattle]

Figured as much...I believe 6588 is HTTP.

BTW Gatelock got 5/6 in PCPRO.

 

[Will]

Nah, HTTP is 80.

Little bit of research - 6658 is the port used by AnalogX proxy software, so pretty similar to scanning for SOCKS.