Hi L!
10 Apr 2002, "L.D. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> What do you protect your win98 against ??
>> Win98 has no open ports (if samba has been disabled)
>> if somebody wants to connect to you, he will get a ICMP Port
>> unreachable.
LB> I want to protect it against itself! <G> I want to boot to DOS
LB> without having to use F8.
And you think that a firewall or IDS will help you there <g>
PS: simply put BootGUI=0 into the msdos.sys file.
LB> I want to make certain any "messaging" software doesn't open up a back
LB> door that others can send files through. etc etc
OK this is the only real useful option of a personal firewall.
;)
LB> I don't know enough to disagree with you about no open ports, but if
LB> that were the case, how can SETI At Home and the cancer research thing
LB> work?
Seti Searches ExtrateresTrial Intelligence :)
It works exactly the same way arachne works.
The program opens a socket to a server. (it does *NOT* listen on a port ...
only servers and windows trojans do :)))
LB> And then there's the embedded service hijacking of Brilliant
LB> inside Kaza...
Jepp this company is ****
But if they get people to run their software, they can do it with any OS.
(eg DOS, Linux, *BSD, .......)
LB> l.d.
CU, Ricsi
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