The short answer (and a good way to start a flamewar ;) install linux :) Cheers, Rob.
On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 16:31, Stephen Craton wrote: > This is kind of off topic but kind of not, it's your call. My brother came > home this weekend from college this weekend acting all cool since he has > been learning to hack. He was telling us (the family) how he did random port > penetration on the home network and he said my computer was the most > vulnerable with around 25 ports open. I didn't really care until about an > hour later he hacked into my computer and then reset it causing me to loose > all my important information. I told my dad and my brother promptly lied > about anything of the sort. > > > > What I want to know.since I know the majority of my ports open are from > IIS.is how I can close these. I only need my local server accessible by just > my computer but the entire network too.just not the network. > > > > I thought the ports would just be open on my computer and not the hardware > firewall and everything. I went ahead and turned on the Windows XP firewall > but I've heard it really sucks. So is there any way of closing the IIS ports > so my brother, and any other hacker, can't get in here and cause havoc? > > > > Thanks, > > Stephen Craton > > http://www.melchior.us -- http://www.melchior.us/portfolio > > > > > -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

