Thanks for the reply Stuart. I also have the firewall on stealth. I also pass the port test with all green. but If you scroll down on that test result page. it will say that you failed the test with this message
"Ping Reply: RECEIVED (FAILED) — Your system REPLIED to our Ping (ICMP Echo) requests, making it visible on the Internet. Most personal firewalls can be configured to block, drop, and ignore such ping requests in order to better hide systems from hackers. This is highly recommended since "Ping" is among the oldest and most common methods used to locate systems prior to further exploitation"
I was hopping that LS3 would help with that. because I knew that OSX's firewall doesn't. and that makes it not really stealth.. If your computer is responding to the ping. it is acknowledging that is there. and the idea of stealth is to appear to not be there.
I've been playing with Mac's since around 2000 or with the first ver. of OSX. got tired of windows. the GRC test was set up by a guy that invented the firewall ZoneAlarm to show Microsoft all the weakness of windows.
With the raising of hacking that is going on. I don't want to wait until hackers decide to make Mac's a main target. since I do everything online. Hopefully LS3 will get an updated that will do this. or OSX.
"Ping Reply: RECEIVED (FAILED) — Your system REPLIED to our Ping (ICMP Echo) requests, making it visible on the Internet. Most personal firewalls can be configured to block, drop, and ignore such ping requests in order to better hide systems from hackers. This is highly recommended since "Ping" is among the oldest and most common methods used to locate systems prior to further exploitation"
I was hopping that LS3 would help with that. because I knew that OSX's firewall doesn't. and that makes it not really stealth.. If your computer is responding to the ping. it is acknowledging that is there. and the idea of stealth is to appear to not be there.
I've been playing with Mac's since around 2000 or with the first ver. of OSX. got tired of windows. the GRC test was set up by a guy that invented the firewall ZoneAlarm to show Microsoft all the weakness of windows.
With the raising of hacking that is going on. I don't want to wait until hackers decide to make Mac's a main target. since I do everything online. Hopefully LS3 will get an updated that will do this. or OSX.