[lug] one of my favorite ways to secure a system

GeEk koolman at h2net.net
Fri May 4 10:39:44 MDT 2001


That's the only way to protect Microsoft Products is to turn the damn box
off...


heheheheheh

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LinSys

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When you die and your life flashes before your eyes does
that include the part where your life flashes before your
eyes?

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On Fri, 4 May 2001, Holshouser, David wrote:

> Just read the last line:
>
> "Microsoft Warns of Vulnerability in Windows 2000"
> InformationWeek Online (05/02/01); Hulme, George V.
> Microsoft is advising users of Windows 2000 to install a patch or to disable
> Internet Information Services (IIS) version 5.0 because of a "extremely
> serious" design flaw that makes the software open to being hacked. A hacker
> could compromise any platform that runs the software because of an
> uninspected buffer, says Scott Culp, program manager at Microsoft security
> response center. He says IIS enables printing from the Web; turning the
> system off also protects the system.
>
>
> --
> David Holshouser
> Engineer I
> Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.
> (303)939-5085  dholshou at ball.com
>
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