So which of these listeners identified on Alvin's computer are untrustworthy? Macintosh:~ Alvin$ netstat -an | grep LISTEN tcp6 0 0 fe80::1%lo0.631 *.* LISTEN tcp4 0 0 *.3829 *.* LISTEN tcp4 0 0 127.0.0.1.631 *.* LISTEN tcp6 0 0 ::1.631 *.* LISTEN
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Tom Piwowar <[email protected]> wrote: > >The presence of listeners, by itself, has no bearing on how secure the > >computer is. > > I would put it a little differently. The security of the listeners is one > major factor that determines the security of the computer. > > When you can't trust the listeners you shut down their ports. Shutting > down ports is a major function of firewalls. So what does that tell us > about the security of the listeners? Not so good. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
