[SpamCop-Geeks] Re: Hack attempts on my computer

[John E. Malmberg]

Paul Johnson wrote:

> The Sat, 19 Jul 2003 21:56:08 -0400, John E. Malmberg <wb8tyw at qsl.network> wrote:
> 
>>You can only get the messenger popup spam if your Microsoft based 
>>operating system is vulnerable to more serious exploits.
>  
> Yeah, like you have NetBIOS running; I wouldn't recommend running
> netbios, netbeui, nfs, or any other network filesystem, or any service
> you don't need to be running just uninstalled if possible, disabled if
> not.

Port 135 is the RPC mapper port.  The only thing that you can do with 
out a firewall to block it is to completely block TCP/IP from that 
interface.  Something that is not practical.

>>The only defense is a hardware or software firewall, so there is no 
>>point disabling the services.  All that does is stop the more harmless 
>>exploits.
> 
> Right, of course, disabling services isn't as good as doing the right
> thing and giving Windows boxes their own private network, but it's a
> start for some people.

In this case it just removes the most harmless exploit of the security 
issue.  It could give someone a false sense of security.

-John
wb8tyw at qsl.network
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