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echo: osdebate
to: Gary Britt
from: Geo.
date: 2007-04-30 23:47:42
subject: Re: Survey: 30% Of Businesses Have No Plans To Upgrade To Windows Vista

From: "Geo." 

Yes, I have several NT4 servers that are behind firewalls and provide
services on the internet. You can block the worms with a firewall.

Geo.

"Gary Britt"  wrote in
message news:4635cde7$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Are you safe if you are behind a NAT type router firewall?  What about a
> good software firewall?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gary
>
> Geo. wrote:
>> No, they are worms that come in thru open ports like RPC, example
>> http://www.nthelp.com/codeblue.htm
>>
>> There are at least 2 (or was it 3) totally unpatched remote anonymous
>> exploits for NT4 now. The one mentioned above, the DNS exploit and I
>> think there is one other that uses the spooler service.
>>
>> Geo.
>>
>> "Gary Britt" 
wrote in message
>> news:46354c78$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> Are those exploits things that come in through a browser only (assuming
>>> you aren't running any web server software on it, etc.)?
>>>
>>> Gary
>>

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