For several possible reasons: a) He may not be the system administrator. b) The system administrators haven't restricted that permission to certain users. c) It's much easier to block tcp/1214 than it is to police several hundred workstations. d) If people actually obeyed rules when told, there'd be no need for any such thing as 'rule enforcement'.
This isn't a perfect world, ya know. -- Omachonu Ogali [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.informationwave.net/~missnglnk ----- Original Message ----- From: "leon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Benoit Joseph'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Calhoun, Heath'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 12:26 PM Subject: RE: Blocking Kazaa > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Why cant you just forbid users from installing there own applications > (especially ones that just recently were installing spyware without > the users knowledge) in an everyone e-mail and then refer users who > still proceed to do this anyway to the corporate security policy? > > Cheers, > > Leon > > - -----Original Message----- > From: Benoit Joseph [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 4:55 PM > To: Calhoun, Heath > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Blocking Kazaa > > > Can't you just block the port 1214? I think that if you block it on > your > firewall, you'll have no problem. > > Can't you use some ACL rules? I believe the IOS has a FW. > > Bye > > > On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 03:53:50PM, Calhoun, Heath wrote: > > I am attempting to block the multimedia search program kazaa on a > > pix 515 running ios 4.4. > > Pinging the Kazaa website, I got a address of 213.248.107.10. The > > program uses port 1214. > > I need to block any access to the website and to the program. I > > have tried several conduits > > without success. > > > > Any help is appreciated. > > > > Heath Calhoun > - ---end quoted text--- > > - -- > > Benoit JOSEPH > Manex SPRL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Perso: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> > > iQA/AwUBPEHDLdqAgf0xoaEuEQIrRACg0GlCfft4xA/MbgvqxQYjdlKvR9oAoJnD > f5fthJRPLXeZrtZm4nFzjDAX > =TSNg > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
