It's not an *important* service and IMO only provides attackers with info for brute force attacks (from gathered usernames) and social engineering attacks (from email addresses and user info).
-scm On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Dean Fox wrote: > I am contemplating to remove/disable finger or port 79 from some > workstations and/or servers. Is there any negative impact for doing it? > > Any advice is much appreciated. > > Thanks, >
