I think Windows has a way to control services. Its in the Control Panel->Administrative tools->services
It lists all services and allows editing of whether the service is running, and whether to start up automatically. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a big Windows fan. Kevin On 8/15/05, Mike Lieman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/15/05, Kevin Toppenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does linux firewall (iptables) do that per-application type of > > blocking? For incoming traffic, it seems to be able to map packets to > > a given service. But I don't know about outgoing packets. > > > > Kevin > > > > iptables, (netfilter) doesn't do that, as far as I know. But I'm not > sure it's needed. > > First step in linux deployment for me, is to shutdown unused services. > That's IMPOSSIBLE with Windows, for practical purposes, so you need > to keep the Bad Guys away from the interesting, open ports. > > I'm NOT a big fan of Windows Firewalls. I just don't trust them. I > use linux as my NAT/Gateway server for the whole subnet. > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices > Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA > Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
