On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 17:00, morning_wood wrote: > > Its generally not considered good practice to install your host in an > > open (or even partially open) network. The host should be fully > > installed, patched and configured securely before connecting. > > my post is in regaurd of Windows Messenger being accessable witthout any > interactive login to take place... not that im dumb for firewalling wrong, > configuration... etc
I don't think the fact that its accessible without interactive login is the problem - the problem is that its accepting connections from anywhere. It should limit to localhost or at most, hosts on the same subnet if connected to ethernet. And yes, I do understand your lack of firewall - maybe I replied a bit too fast, but in my mind connecting a windows box without firewalling is a misconfiguration :) Point accepted that there is a problem though. > > donnie _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
