What is wrong with my firewall?

Yurij Pospelow <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.guarddog
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I left the settings of my firewall as those described in the thread "Boot time 
script" and went over with Konqueror to Gibson Research Corporation and head 
towards the "Shields Up!" area according to the tip from the Guarddog 
Handbook. When I clicked "ShieldsUp!" in the section "Hot Spots" a page was 
showed up with two ares of text titled "Please take just a moment to read and 
consider these three points" and "Your Internet connection has no Reverse 
DNS" and each area was followed by the button "Proceed". Only one of them I 
could press - I pressed the latter. I saw the popup window titled "Network 
Transmission - Konqueror" with the text:

Warning: This is a secure form but it is attempting to send your data back 
unencrypted.
A third party may be able to intercept and view this information.
Are you sure you wish to continue?

followed by two buttons "Send Unencrypted" and "Cancel". The latter does 
nothing so I had to press "Send Unencrypted". Immediately afterwards I saw 
the next popup window titled "Security Information - Konqueror" with the 
text:

You are about to leave secure mode. Transmissions will no longer be encrypted.
This means that a third party could observe your data in transit.

followed by two buttons "Continue Loading" and "Cancel". The latter does 
nothing so I had to press "Continue Loading". And finally I arrived at the 
result message:

Greetings!

Without your knowledge or explicit permission, the Windows networking 
technology which connects your computer to the Internet may be offering some 
or all of your computer's data to the entire world at this very moment!

Now it is only left to remind the subject of this message: "What is wrong with 
my firewall?" :-(
-- 
Best regards,
Yurij

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