On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 07:22:26PM -0500, Daniel Atallah wrote: > On Nov 29, 2007 7:11 PM, David F. Severski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 06:12:59PM -0500, Evan Schoenberg wrote: > > > On Nov 29, 2007, at 10:06 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Are there any existing or planned facilities to disable UPnP support in > > >> the > > >> Windows Pidgin port? An old Gaim ticket to provide a config option for > > >> this > > >> seems to have gone stale. The only way I've found to eliminate this > > >> unnecessary service has been to block it at the host firewall level. > > > > > > Out of curiosity, why would you want to disable UPnP? > > > > I, like many users, do not use UPnP. In fact, given the history of UPnP > > on Windows, it's one of the first services I disable when hardening > > that OS. > > > Pidgin's functionality is in no way dependent on the win32 UPnP service, nor > does pidgin doesn't interact with it.
Understood. I was trying to draw attention to the problems inherent when running systems and services that are not needed. The XP UPnP service may have been a poor example, for which I apologize. Pidgin still has a UPnP client as core functionality which cannot be turned off. Pidgin is therefore listening for announcements and configuration information from a service with no possibility of instructing the client to ignore any rogue input. If Pidgin was instead implementing a Telnet server, I would have the same concern. I expect software packages to be as minimally chatty and to listen to only those services and announcements that I instruct them to be listening for. David _______________________________________________ Support mailing list [email protected] http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
