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["Shea Tisdale" <shea AT sheatisdale.com>]

Well, the first thing I would say is:

Linux and MacOS X both ship with their firewall enabled by default now,
while XP ships with it disabled.  So enable it.  It's under the Advanced tab
of your local area connection properties panel.

The RPC exploit (blaster) that was recently a problem would have been
blocked had this been enabled by default.

other stuff:
http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,111121,00.asp

This is a great run down of all the services and suggestions on how to
change them and what to set them at for various machine types.
http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm and
http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/supertweaks.htm



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Beckett" <thomas AT tbeckett.com>
To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/";
<internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 10:02 PM
Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Windows Firewall


> 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?
>
> Thanks!
>
> TaB
>
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