Re: [fw-wiz] Annoying pop-ups

From: Gary Flynn (flynngn@jmu.edu)
Date: 11/01/02 

From: Gary Flynn <flynngn@jmu.edu>
To: firewall-wizards@honor.icsalabs.com
Date: Fri Nov  1 16:04:01 2002

Gregory Austin wrote:
>
> There are many "dangerous" features in MS's desktop OS's (take
> UPNP or the RDP server, for example)-- but the messenger
> service is not one of them.

UPNP, Netbios, and IIS weren't dangerous either until defects
were discovered or until someone didn't set a strong
password on their Administrator account or shared a folder
they shouldn't.

> The service provides useful functionality used by admins all over
> to broadcast messages to their LAN's (particularly easy and useful in flat
> environments).

Then let the admins who want it enable it on computers and networks
they manage and leave them disabled for the consumer and admins
who don't want to or can't manage it. 

-- 
Gary Flynn
Security Engineer - Technical Services
James Madison University
Please R.U.N.S.A.F.E.
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