From: "Geo." 

"Mike N."  wrote in message
news:j19k90t8pjtrj96n8m9914rjq6g9j5sdcc{at}4ax.com...

>    We already had 445 blocked from the blaster worm and didn't notice
> anything unusual.   You'll have to repeat your support-and-patch exercise
> for the next port 445 vulnerability.

This is true, but then our customers can create NT file shares and access
them from most of the internet..

I would view blocking port 445 like blocking SSH. it's too useful to do without.

Geo.

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