Dan Brown wrote:
> Now, a brief editorial comment: is that site run by the
> Personal Firewall Marketing Association? Really, I think the
> statement that "It is urgent that you install personal
> firewall software" simply because your machine is visible to
> the 'net (that is, all ports aren't stealthed) is a _little_
> too strong...
Agreed, most of these sites are crap (i actually saw one once start scanning someone else thinking it was me and then told me i was open to the world) or are run by some seriously paranoid people i.e Steve Gibson.
With respect to the original post (and this has been said many times before), if you think you have a security issue let the guys at Mitel know privately. It does no one any good if say for instance you actually do find a security issue and then proceed to tell the world about it by posting it on an open forum.
If you think there is an issue with respect to your browser requests broadcasting your private ip addresses to the internet consider this. Every time you make a request to the internet you tell the world so much about your self ie what screen resolution you are running, what type of browser you are using and much much more. Also if a hacker where to get thru your firewall they would have your private network range in about 2 seconds flat.
Finally, although turning off transperent proxy might solve your problem it does in fact serve a useful purpose where by it forces all users on the lan to use the proxy whether they want to or not. This allows (amongst other things) for monitoring of website visits or access control to various undesirable websites etc.
Regards Duncan
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