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Is it possible to disable Ping reply on Windows Vista Home Basic or its

Windows Firewall? The setting is recommended by GRC's ShieldsUP making my PC

invisible on the Internet.

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    "AChung" <AChung@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

    news:6B19A99D-5187-4ABB-B424-BA9F88CC43AD@microsoft.com...

    > Is it possible to disable Ping reply on Windows Vista Home Basic or its

    > Windows Firewall? The setting is recommended by GRC's ShieldsUP making my

    > PC

    > invisible on the Internet.

     

    Ipsec is on Vista but I don't know about Home Basic.

     

    http://www.petri.co.il/block_ping_traffic_with_ipsec.htm

     

    If you want the machine to be invisable to the the Internet with all inbound

    unsolicited traffic block to the machine by default, then put the machine

    behind a NAT router.

     

    http://www.homenethelp.com/web/explain/about-NAT.asp

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    "AChung" wrote:

    > Is it possible to disable Ping reply on Windows Vista Home Basic or its

    > Windows Firewall? The setting is recommended by GRC's ShieldsUP making my PC

    > invisible on the Internet.

     

    By default, "Ping reply" is disabled.

    By default, with Windows Vista firewall all computers are invisible on the

    Internet

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    Re: How to disable ICMP echo requests (Ping) on Windows Vista Home

     

    Dear Mr Arnold

     

    Thank you for your detailed information.

     

    Regards.

     

     

    "Mr. Arnold" wrote:

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    > "AChung" <AChung@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

    > news:6B19A99D-5187-4ABB-B424-BA9F88CC43AD@microsoft.com...

    > > Is it possible to disable Ping reply on Windows Vista Home Basic or its

    > > Windows Firewall? The setting is recommended by GRC's ShieldsUP making my

    > > PC

    > > invisible on the Internet.

    >

    > Ipsec is on Vista but I don't know about Home Basic.

    >

    > http://www.petri.co.il/block_ping_traffic_with_ipsec.htm

    >

    > If you want the machine to be invisable to the the Internet with all inbound

    > unsolicited traffic block to the machine by default, then put the machine

    > behind a NAT router.

    >

    > http://www.homenethelp.com/web/explain/about-NAT.asp

    >

    >

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    RE: How to disable ICMP echo requests (Ping) on Windows Vista Home

     

    Hi, BillD

     

    Thank you for your advice.

     

    Regards.

     

     

    "BillD" wrote:

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    > "AChung" wrote:

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    > > Is it possible to disable Ping reply on Windows Vista Home Basic or its

    > > Windows Firewall? The setting is recommended by GRC's ShieldsUP making my PC

    > > invisible on the Internet.

    >

    > By default, "Ping reply" is disabled.

    > By default, with Windows Vista firewall all computers are invisible on the

    > Internet

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