A Bit of Windows Security
While waiting for my hair to dry I've been surfing the Slashdot forums and stumbled upon a few links with freeware security utilities for Windows. The first thing a clueless windows user should install is an antivirus program. There's a free version of AVG antivirus program for personal home use. There's Spybot Search & Destroy to remove all of your spyware. There are three simple utilities at Gibson Research Corporation: UnPlug n'Pray to shut down the Windows UPnP service (an oddity that scans the network for some sort of auto-configuring devices), DCOMbombulator that shuts down the DCOM system which cares for remote program execution, and Shoot The Messenger which has NOTHING to do with the MSN Messenger, but instead shuts down a completely different messenger service that is there to receive SMB messages (the "net send" command, if that rings any bells).And now I go shopping. :]
posted by AlesS @ 12/11/2004 10:12:00 AM
1 Comments:
As far as I know SP2 for XP pro closes that 'net send' thing dude. Then again any decent firewall will block ports well.
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