Is Napster a security risk to firewalls?

2000-09-18 Thread Richard Murphy
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- My company has just banned the use of Napster and any program like it as our network administrator says it poses a risk to our security by opening up the firewall and therefore makes some of our servers vulnerable. I'm not a network administrator so I have no

RE: Is Napster a security risk to firewalls?

2000-09-18 Thread Vincent Hoffman-Kazlauskas
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- Say you'll install gnutella instead. now theres a potential security risk :) -Original Message- From: Richard Murphy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 18 September 2000 12:30 To: multiple recipients of Subject: Is Napster a security risk to firewalls? ---

Re: Is Napster a security risk to firewalls?

2000-09-18 Thread martian
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- I'm sure the sysadmins on the list will have something to say, but surely if the sysadmins blocked all the ports except the ones actually in use by something other than napster, then even if napster tried to use other ports (or users configured it to), the ports