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. > In general, a fundamental security stance is to disable > unnecessary services. Doing so minimizes the amount of attack service > presented to the outside world. With the exception of DNS lookups, every > other service or traffic sent out of Pidgin seems to be user > controllable. Only UPnP presents a hard coded service that is always on > with no possibly to turn off. > > David
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