I just installed CIS on a friend’s WinXP Pro SP3 machine and imported my settings. I double checked the setup and everything is set the same way I have my CIS. My machine passes the ShieldsUP! “All Service Ports” test but my friend’s machine fails on their “ping” test. I’m sort of a novice at firewall settings. Could anyone supply a rule that I may try to pass this ping test or is it something to be concerned about? All of their ports show as “stealthed.”
Do your friend use a router to connect to the Internet? If so, it’s the router that fails, not CIS. There should be an option in the router’s configuration to block ping.
Hey, thanks a lot! They are using a router with two other computers (they home school). I’ll look into their router settings. It’s nice to know that CIS isn’t the culprit.