Help worried about firwall settings

[rwba13572]

I am trying out Sygate 5.5 free firewall, I ran the security test from within the program, the scan said most ports were closed but not stealthed so I could be at risk, & one port was open. The problem is I can't work out how to put it in stealth mode. I wonder if I would be better off going back to the XP (SP2) firewall as it was stealthed when I tested it. Thanks for any help forum members can offer.
Rick

[PrntRhd]

Sygate is better than SP2 firewall.
What port did show as non-stealthed? (You need to write it down)

[rwba13572]

Ports listed as closed were 20,21,22,23,25,53,59,79,80,110,113,443,1080,5000,8 080,1243,1999,6776,7789,12345,31337,54320,54321. The port listed as open was 8 (ICMP).

[PrntRhd]

with sygate, unclicking "act as server" for every application (applications>advanced) stealths all ports. this is recommended on the sygate forums

Try the above.

[classicsoftware]

How do you connect? Is it broad band or dial up? If it's broad band, you shopuld get a router which will act as a hardware firewall or use a proxy server hardware firewall.

Test your ports here (https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2)