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There are no exact technical terms compiled into a list of rules for what is and what is not a firewall at this time. New technology and words used on the Internet such as Stealth, Stealthed, Firewall, Drone, R.A.T, Key Logger, Tunneling and many others are not yet fully defined in dictionary terms. The only thing that we can do, is to glean information from The Free Online Dictionary Of Computing FOLDOC or use some other popular Dictionary Links such as: dictionary.com

Computer Science:
"Any of a number of security schemes that prevent unauthorized users from gaining access to a computer network or that monitor transfers of information to and from the network."

Though some would like to make their own numbered list of criteria that a firewall must have, there is no such list adopted by any official principality at this time.

Most firewalls are defined as to mean that it blocks port connections made to your computer, and keep users inside your network from going out to other networks. These types of firewalls and firewall programs have their use, but they also tend to give computer users a false sense of security.

Dumb Firewall Blockers
The term "Dumb Firewall" is a term to describe a firewall program that has very little intelligence. It simply blocks ALL Internet connections by default. Some of these may ask you to trust a program before it will allow inbound or outbound connections to your computer. End users that choose not to trust the program may find that their Internet program(s) no longer function properly anymore. On the other hand, if they choose to trust the 'WRONG' program, they may be allowing crackers into their computer without ANY future warnings from the Dumb Firewall.

Dumb Firewall programs provide absolutely NO protection whatsoever against backdoor programs that come built into Internet servers such as NetSnooper Gold. NetSnooper is only one example of what ANY program can do to gain access to your PC while posing as one of your trusted Internet programs.

If the user were to trust a program such as mIRC they would also be trusting any backdoored scripts that the program may load. This includes backdoor and hostile mIRC scripts that are able to DELETE, RENAME, EXECUTE, DOWNLOAD, and UPLOAD files. Your computer could also be used to infect other computers with any one of thousands of IRC Worms. ALL of this can EASILY be done WITHOUT ONE single warning from a Dumb Firewall that trusts programs on a per application basis rather than intelligently.

Dumb Firewalls do NOT monitor your configuration files; They do NOT monitor your registry; They do NOT monitor your startup folders; They do NOT scan for Trojans; Some do not even provide a list of socket connections; Though you may choose to use a Dumb Firewall along with Hacker Eliminator, the real protection will come from the program that is providing the multitude of protection and watching over your entire system.

Dumb Firewall Blockers Do Not Scan For Or Remove Trojans
Though a Dumb Firewall can aid in preventing a Trojan from accessing the Internet, or help identify a program that may be a Trojan, it does not terminate the process or remove the problem. After the user chooses not to trust the Trojan process, they are STILL infected. The Trojan is STILL running on their computer! If the Dumb Firewall ever fails to load or if the user turns off the firewall, the Trojan will now be able to freely make or allow unrestricted connections to your computer. The reader should also be aware that the Trojan may carry a payload that can delete files or cause damage after a certain number of days that the hacker was not able to access the computer. One of many examples is the Billrus Trojan which deletes all files on drive C the 30th time that the Trojan is activated.

Having a Trojan running on your computer, could even be a time bomb just waiting to go off.

In the case of the Dumb Firewall, it is almost like locking a burglar
in your home and then going back to sleep.

There have been many new threats coming out over the last year.
The three to watch out for are:

Explorer Vulnerabilities
There are more and more reports of new ActiveX, Java and Scripting problems with Internet Explorer. These vulnerabilities allow files to be uploaded and ran on your computer secretly while browsing or reading email. more...

HOOKING
Hackers have learned that they can register their Trojan and then have other Internet programs hook their DLL's. The method of hooking can be used as a startup method to launch Trojans as well as provide stealth when having already trusted programs load their Trojan DLL.

Hacker Eliminator includes CRC checking which will report when a DLL has been modified. It also includes registry monitoring which will report programs registering themselves as well as adding themselves to ShellExecuteHooks.

AV Kill
The Hackers have been working overtime. Many simple concepts are starting to be used by the newer Trojans. Hackers have started adding the code into their Trojans that send the Windows shutdown command to AV scanners and other protection software. It is a simple few lines of code and all that is required is for the Trojan to simply tell the security program that Windows is closing and the user is shutting down. The AV program will silently and gracefully close thinking that the computer is being rebooted. The Hacker can now connect to the Internet or do anything else desired that the firewall or AV program would before prevented. Hacker Eliminator is not fooled by these types of attacks. More

Think Of The Risks

Firewalls only detect incoming or outgoing port connections. If the program that is run on your computer does not connect to the Internet, your firewall will NEVER say a word! Other protection programs may try to detect the 'possibility' of the program having Internet capability. This is being done by checking to see if the program has loaded WINSOCK.

This is what is happening today:

1. The user is browsing the web using a search engine looking for a driver or some other search criteria, or maybe gets an email spam sent to the inbox.

2. The user clicks on a link and visits the site or clicks the email to delete it.

The problem is that the site was hacked or made by a Hacker or the Hacker sent the email. Either way when the page is opened, a tiny file is secretly and automatically uploaded into the computer and then executed!

Many of these today are adware / spyware / key loggers and Trojans. The point is that a "PROGRAM" is being installed on your computer SECRETLY and without your knowledge.

3. Now lets look at what could happen even though you are running a firewall.

Narrator: The file is uploaded and ran on the computer.

Firewall: No Comment

AV Software: Nothing Detected

Narrator: The uploaded file starts to snoop around when he passes by two bouncers at the door. The uploaded file tries to talk to them.

Uploaded file: Nice to meet you, mind if I have a look around?

AV Software: My name is Nufton Internet Security. I don't know you!
Sorry, I am not allowed to talk to strangers.

Firewall: My name is ZoneBells, I only listen and react to port connections

Uploaded file: OK, I will go in and have a look around then, nice meeting you.
(WOW... that was close! It is a good thing I didn't open the door for my creator yet).

Narrator: The uploaded file starts taking notes

Uploaded file: It is so nice to be so welcome, let me catalog a few things:
This user is using Nufton Internet Security
mental note: don't connect to the Internet until I look at this closer.
The user is running ZoneBells
mental note: this does not look like it is going to be hard at all...

Narrator: After checking everything else on the check list, the uploaded file walks over to ZoneBells and taps it on the shoulder while he SCREAMS into it's ear...

Uploaded file: HEY ZoneBells, can you hear me?

Firewall / ZoneBells: Sorry, you need to make a port connection.

Uploaded file: OK, I will in a minute; oh by the way did you know the user was rebooting the computer? Windows is shutting down! You better hurry, don't want to be late (i need to tie my shoes, catch up with you in a sec...)

Firewall / ZoneBells: Wow, thanks! And to think I almost missed it!

Narrator: ZoneBells closes while the uploaded file quickly places the default icon that zonebells was using to the system tray. (the user may have seen a small flash on the screen) While ZoneBells sleeps, the uploaded file adds lines to ZoneBell's configuration files and programs a few other tricks that he has learned from past experiences. The uploaded file now does the same with ZoneBells friend's: Port Breaker, Nufton Internet Security, MarkFee and Dark-Ice.

Narrator: The uploaded file now wakes up ZoneBells and his friends.

Firewall / ZoneBells: Hi Uploaded file, I see that you have a lifetime pass. You and your friends are welcome here ANYTIME!

AV Software/ Nufton Internet Security: Likewise!

Hacker Eliminator includes process monitoring. It will not allow a new program or process, to run on your computer without your knowledge(.) More

In the past, some of our older versions of our old software 'LockDown' detected port connections made to your computer by default. Newer versions of the LockDown software stopped doing this by default.

There is nothing wrong with detecting a limited number of port connections or connection attempts on default Trojan ports. Even the older versions of LockDown detected some of the more popular Trojan default ports. About the same time that we upgraded our port monitor to watch all 65,535 virtual ports, new Internet Worms were already flooding the Internet with random port probes. Code Red, Nimda and other variants began infecting millions of computer users. The problem is that these new Worms as well as some of the older network Worms scan random subnets. This means that there are millions of infected computers out there scanning IP addresses and setting off nuisance alarms in port monitoring software. We have seen this problem escalate alarmingly over the past months and it will continue to become a more wide spread problem than it already is. This is only causing panic to users that do not understand what is going on.

As with any IP scan, the scan itself is harmless and not against any law to perform in most States and Countries. In the days that the old software "LockDown' was detecting port scans, a user would be lucky to get 3 or 4 connection attempts on a daily basis on a cable modem. The sad thing is that now with these new Worms, it is hard for an end user to tell what was a real default Trojan port and what was some random hit. Technology has also expanded to where hackers can manipulate compromised computers to perform default Trojan scans on command. This leaves you to wonder if the connections are really coming from the hacker. In most cases it is the hacker using one of his victims computers.

When someone makes a complaint today, they now need to make an allowance, knowing that virtually 99% of the time, the port is not even open on your computer and they could not have got in anyway. It is often some poor infected soul. To top it all off, in almost EVERY case, the port that was detected does not even exist on your computer! If you place a complaint and cause the infected computer user to lose their Internet account, how will they ever get the infection out of their computer seeing that the outdated protection on the store shelf will need to be updated online, to catch the latest Worms and Trojans?

Another thing to consider is the RUTHLESS Dumb Port monitor or blocker that is reporting HALF/OPEN scans. The number of potential false alarms is UNFATHOMABLE. If any computer touches your IP address even for legitimate reasons, the Dumb Blocker will alarm off. If there was a proper understanding of what was going on out on the Internet, or some kind of detailed explanation that came with the program, it would not be half of the problem that we have today. New Internet users are scared out of their wits and thinking that "200 people tried hacking into my computer today", and "My, what would I ever do without my Dumb Firewall program to protect me from these non existent threats?"

Fear Mongering
We do not want to be part of this DELIBERATE fear mongering! The port monitoring that was included with LockDown did not play ANY part in the direct protection of your computer. It was included for informational use only.

It would not be hard for the Dumb Firewall program to report:

"UDP Port Connection Attempt Detected Going To Port 2344
This Port Does Not Exist On Your Computer -- No Action required"
Or "NO need to worry, you could not have been harmed anyway".

This type of reporting may not make as much money from the people out there scared out of their minds, but it would be the more honest way to present the Dumb thing :-)

The New Hacker Eliminator software has left out this type of monitoring. By version 1.3 we will have a fully working firewall included in the program, which will be smart enough to point out the difference between a real threat and a false alarm.

Some people that use a Dumb Firewall Blocker notice that it gives them a limited level of Internet stealth. Those that promote these types of programs immediately urge the user to visit one of the popular online scanning sites to "make sure that their ports are stealthed". The user then visits the site and runs the online scan. It is like a miracle! It appears that the Dumb Blocker just stealthed their ports! The key word here is "APPEARS". The reader will be surprised to find out that more than likely they just visited one of the online scan sites that scanned between 10 and 80 ports out of the 65,535 virtual ports on their computer. If a complete scan was done, open non-stealthed ports would have been found if you are like most users that have trusted Internet programs. The reader will also be surprised to find out that many of the ports that were scanned by this online web scanner do not even exist on their computer!

Here at LockDown, we take great pride in offering you the best in Internet security. We realize that it simply is not possible for ANY firewall program to provide you with True Internet Stealth. For this reason, we have researched the subject and found a method that really DOES work! When using a proxy service, all of the connections that you make are TRULY stealthed and your real IP address is hidden. LockDown Corp. has developed and is providing one of the most complete and affordable anonymous proxy services on the Internet.

Hacker Eliminator includes advanced monitoring and multiple layers of protection that make it possible for us to be able to offer a Hacker Proof Guarantee. Our guarantee ALONE speaks for itself, besides the fact that Hacker Eliminator is used by many fortune 500 companies, Government agencies, Schools and Universities around the WORLD.

Hacker Eliminator offers two different pricing structures. The price of Hacker Eliminator is only $99.00 which is below many of our competitors when you realize that Hacker Eliminator is really several programs rolled up into one. We also offer monthly subscriptions that make it affordable for our users to subscribe to many of our services at one low monthly cost. Our special package deals can save over $600.00 yearly depending on how many of the services are needed. The LOW monthly cost also makes it affordable for almost anyone. Other companies charge for upgrades and when you call for technical support it is either billed to your phone number, or you hear a message announcement that says "please have your credit card ready." LockDown Corp. offers more product and support for less money than ANY other commercial protection software. Many other companies are hard to contact even by email!

We also offer a FREE scanner for those that are infected, but can't afford a complete security solution.

Integrity
LockDown Corp. and the Hacker Eliminator software simply provides the best in anti Trojan and anti hacker protection. Neither LockDown Corp. or any of it's DBA's have ever had an unresolved complaint, as reported by the Better Business Bureau here and here or any other consumer protection agency. LockDown Corp. is also a member in good standing with Dun & Bradstreet.

Our clients have been receiving product upgrades and top level technical support for years. We also receive a high level of praise from our clients as shown in the praises section of our web page. LockDown Corp. is staffed with seasoned professionals and will always be here to provide you with the best security solutions and help when you need it.