Adityan S . Murthy saw fit to inform LI that: >A friend of mine has a port scanning s/w and when we were online, he scanned >my ports and found that port 139 or something was wide open (i was running >win98). He could also browse through my directories. Is such an insecurity >there in Linux? That is a well known doze security hole, for which M$ has released a patch ages ago. Open ports are a problem anywhere ... only thing, with Linux, you ~know~ what ports are open. Stuff like nmap, saint, satan etc are all available for you on linux to know ~what~ ports you are running and how to secure them. Just that, with a dialup and no 24*7 dns, it's not much hassle, the problem with open ports on win98 is being backdoored by a trojan and having your passwords sent out - same case with stuff like back orifice etc. Do this - http://www.google.com/search?q=firewall+faq -- Suresh Ramasubramanian + [EMAIL PROTECTED] /earth: file system full. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The LIH mailing list archives are available at: http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/wilma/linux-india-help
