VERY CLEARLY IN BIG CAPITAL LETTERS AND EASY SIMPLE WORDS
about the inherent bad juju involved in putting an unsecured Windows (or anything else,
for that matter) box directly on a broadband link.
If you want to be cute, and this is what I'd do to make friends with the marketing/sales
people, is to see whether any of the 'personal firewall' vendors (BlackICE, Norton, ZoneAlarm)
would be willing to cut you a deal to provide that as a supported add-on for a small
charge on whatever 'starter kit' you distribute (I seem to recall Bluewin sending out a CD
to subscribers with some toys like preconfigured browsers, documentation, whatever.)
<rant>I'm still baffled at how few broadband (or dial-up, for that matter) users understand
even the most basic network security concepts.</rant>
Cheers,
-John
Guido Roeskens wrote:
It would be a nice feature to let users use "proxy-only" Internet access if they wish (transparent proxy)
or filter-on-demand, so our users can choose wheter bluewin blocks ports for them
Port Assignments:
Keyword Decimal Description ------- ------- ----------- msp 18/tcp Message Send Protocol
msp 18/udp Message Send Protocol
Net send uses smb (netbios or whatever) in the port range 135-139It seem these services are using port 18 toc't had an article about the problem end of last year, maybe you find it on http://www.heise.de
send the message through.
http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers
Any other isp have expirience with that spam problem?
Suggestions? Objections? Flames? YAY... :)
I think there is a c't FAQ with an nice description in german.
Regards,
Guido Roeskens
Bluewin Hostmaster
Bluewin AG
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