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
> 
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