I recently went onto Sheild Up website to check my ports. All passed as invisible except the Ping test. Says it failed this test. What does this mean? ???
I didn’t know what it is.So i thought i better find out
I found this
PING
Also known as: Packet Internet Groper
A utility program that forwards data packets to check the quality of a link or verify the connection of a machine to the Internet. Ping is a basic program that lets you verify that a particular Internet address exists and can accept requests
Are you behind a router? If you are, then it is your router that got scanned, not your computer (and CFP).
I have a cable modem and an Ethernet card ,which is inside my machine, and this allows me to network to my two boys. I know when I was using another firewall it passed so I thought I had better check it out!