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[Michael Hipp]

Joel Hammer wrote:
> Thanks for the scan. These ports I expected to be open, except for 1024
> (kdm). I just wonder why ShieldsUp didn't detect these ports. It looks like
> I was inviting the world to log onto my X server. I have never found anyone
> doing this. It is password protected. 
> I have to conclude that ShieldsUp is bogus.

It's not bogus. Mr. Gibson is well respected and his site is widely 
used. Dunno why it didn't work properly on your system. I might guess 
that it misidentified your IP address, or perhaps the fact that the 
Internet has been only half working all day caused it to timeout.

Michael