If you’re running your internet via a router it was probably the router that was tested. You will need to go into your router stats and disable ping response.
Maybe somebody else can elaborate on this as I am certainly no expert on this matter
I don’t agree to that statement, a hardware router firewall is your first layer of defense.
After that you could have a local and/or wifi network so it’s useful to have a software firewall also, and on top of that a software firewall will also “alert” you if some application is trying to connect TO the internet.
Just responding to an icmp echo request is not so dangerous, it will only tell somebody that there is something active on that ip address.
Maybe what you said is right,but I think for a normal people,a hardware firewall is enough.
In my view,IP is very important,I feel a need to hide it.
thanks.
But now somebody get’s infected with a Trojan Downloader etc, with a firewall you will get an alert that program xyz.exe is trying to access server/port etc… without a software firewall you will never know that it send you credit card details out to it’s control server.
Only if those “normal people” want a false sense of security.
Here is an analogy for you. Say you live in a high crime area. Would you feel that because you’ve locked your gate, you don’t need to lock your house as well? Seems a bit silly not to take the extra precaution doesn’t it? And I don’t think anyone would say that the internet is a safe neighborhood…
