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[Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>]

on Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 10:02:56PM -0400, Thomas Beckett wrote:
> Shea Tisdale wrote:
> >Steve is entirely right about the Microsoft OS being fundamentally 
> >insecure.
> 
> In this vein, can someone list the primary security holes that are left 
> open by default in XP and other Windows versions?  And perhaps indicate 
> how to close them?  Is there a site with such info available?

"FORMAT C:" jokes aside, sure, you can close the ones that are known, and
that Microsoft has provided a patch for, and that don't interfere with the
proper operation of the services you do need, and that you have the savvy
to close. 

Go here:

 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid

search on 'Microsoft'. The results page may take a while to download on
a slow line. And those are just the vulnerabilities discovered since 2001,
two years after I stopped using my old Win95 laptop.

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