run a scan on your machine. check open ports. block any ports that you do not want to serve to the internet. Read ALL security warnings on the current web server application you are using. BTW ( the most hit websites are running NT and IIS ) The Wolf -> -----Original Message----- -> From: joel@silverw.com [mailto:joel@silverw.com] -> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 3:59 PM -> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us -> Subject: Re: port blocks -> -> -> Exactly watson!!! Windows indeed!! -> -> - Joel -> ----- Original Message ----- -> From: "Furmanek, Greg" -> To: -> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 3:53 PM -> Subject: RE: port blocks -> -> -> > 139??? You must be running windows.... -> > -> > The Wolf -> > -> > -> -----Original Message----- -> > -> From: joel@silverw.com [mailto:joel@silverw.com] -> > -> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 3:25 PM -> > -> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us -> > -> Subject: Re: port blocks -> > -> -> > -> -> > -> Well, actually, this is the router in front of our web -> > -> servers. The only -> > -> port I am currently blocking is tcp port 139. -> > -> -> > -> - Joel -> > -> ----- Original Message ----- -> > -> From: "Furmanek, Greg" -> > -> To: -> > -> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 3:09 PM -> > -> Subject: RE: port blocks -> > -> -> > -> -> > -> > If you not serving to the internet block all from outside -> > -> > and block all from inside except ports that are necessary. -> > -> > -> > -> > The Wolf -> > -> > -> > -> > -> -----Original Message----- -> > -> > -> From: joel@silverw.com [mailto:joel@silverw.com] -> > -> > -> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 2:52 PM -> > -> > -> To: Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us -> > -> > -> Subject: port blocks -> > -> > -> -> > -> > -> -> > -> > -> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. -> > -> > -> -> > -> > -> -> > -> > -> ------=_NextPart_000_01C1_01C006C8.4D852090 -> > -> > -> Content-Type: text/plain; -> > -> > -> charset="iso-8859-1" -> > -> > -> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable -> > -> > -> -> > -> > -> OK, I was trying to get an idea of standard port blocks for -> > -> > -> security = -> > -> > -> reasons to put in place on a router. I know that there is -> > -> > -> no such thing = -> > -> > -> as a standard set of port blocks, however, there -> surely must -> > -> > -> be a few = -> > -> > -> port blocks that you security gnomes out there -> keep fresh in -> > -> > -> your memory = -> > -> > -> as standard procedure. I will leave the can of -> Mountain Dew -> > -> > -> in front of = -> > -> > -> me unopened as a sacrafice for this arcane -> knowledge. Thanks. -> > -> > -> -> > -> > -> - Joel -> > -> > -> -> ------------------------------------------------------------- -> > -> > -> ------------= -> > -> > -> --- -> > -> > -> "For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power -> > -> > -> of reason, = -> > -> > -> the -> > -> > -> story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of -> > -> > -> ignorance; = -> > -> > -> he is -> > -> > -> about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over -> > -> > -> the final = -> > -> > -> rock, -> > -> > -> he is greeted by a band of theologians who have -> been sitting -> > -> > -> there for -> > -> > -> centuries." -> > -> > -> -> > -> > -> - Dr. Robert Jastrow -> > -> > -> Founder of NASA"s Goddard Institute for -> space studies -> > -> > -> -> > -> > -> -> > -> > -> -> > -> > -> ------=_NextPart_000_01C1_01C006C8.4D852090 -> > -> > -> Content-Type: text/html; -> > -> > -> charset="iso-8859-1" -> > -> > -> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable -> > -> > -> -> > -> > -> Transitional//EN"> -> > -> > -> -> > -> > -> > -> > -> charset=3Diso-8859-1"> -> > -> > -> -> > -> > -> -> > -> > -> -> > -> > -> -> > -> > ->

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