and then comes a new type of e-mailvirus and...
so the user should know of pc-security, but...
we do have a av on our smtp. so many user say "aahhh.. then i don't need any av-software"... explain, explain...


i will say: the securest way is to unplug the powercord of the pc.
there will never be a "unholed" system.

but you're right. maybe we should discuss to close some nice win-ports. do have other systems the same "problem" ie mac, beOs....? which ports sould we also close except the 135-139 445? what is then about open internet?

rog

Pascal Gloor schrieb:
Why Access Carriers and also Transit Carriers not block all the RPC Ports

on ther Access Routers ?


because some of us (swiss ISPs) think the user has the right to have full
internet access (ie not blocking anything).

Personally I think the average user is not able to secure his Windows and
will be infected in ANY case. See, the other day I have reinstalled a PC,
Windows XP. I had the bad idea to have it pluged to the internet without
being behind a nat or so. Guess, once the box was installed and all the
patches applied (~120Mbytes), my PC was already infected by 3 viruses and 2
trojans.

I think we should filter some well known " unsecure ports", as 135-139 and
445 and so we do.  No user complained so far.

If a user really wants to do "whatever microsoft sharing" over the internet,
we will tell him to use pptp or anything else he could use to have a
'minimum' of security.


Pascal


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